1 Corinthians 12
1 Now about spiritual matters, brothers and sisters, I don’t want you to be uninformed.
2 You know that when you were Gentiles, you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.
3 So I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.
6 There are different ways of working, but it is the same God who works everything in everyone.
7 Each one is given a manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8 To one, a message of wisdom is given through the Spirit; to another, a message of knowledge by the same Spirit.
9 To another, faith by the same Spirit; to another, gifts of healing by the one Spirit.
10 To another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discernment of spirits; to another, different kinds of tongues; to another, interpretation of tongues.
11 But it is one and the same Spirit who works all these things, distributing them to each person individually as he wills.
12 For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form one body, so it is with Christ.
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free people; and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one part, but many.
15 If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that does not make it any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But God has placed each part in the body, just as he wanted.
19 If all the parts were one part, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you,” or the head to the feet, “I don’t need you.”
22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem weaker are much more necessary.
23 And the parts of the body we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor; and our unpresentable parts receive greater modesty.
24 Our presentable parts do not need this. But God has composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
25 so that there would be no division in the body, but that the parts would care for one another equally.
26 If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it.
27 You are the body of Christ, and each of you is a part of it.
28 And God has appointed some in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then miracles; then gifts of healing, helping, administration, and different kinds of tongues.
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?
31 Earnestly seek the greater gifts. And I will show you a far more excellent way.
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