NOW concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
ignorant. (2)Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn away after the idols
that are dumb, even as ye have been led. (3)Wherefore I advertise you,
that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, call Jesus anathema: and no
man can say, Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost. (4)But there are
diversities of gifts, though the same Spirit. (5)And there are
diversities of services, but the same Lord. (6)And there are
diversities of mighty operations, but it is the same God who worketh
all in all.
(7)Now to every one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for
usefulness. (8)For to one man by the Spirit is given wise discourse;
but to another speech _communicative_ of knowledge by the same Spirit;
(9)to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing
_diseases_ by the same Spirit; (10)to another miraculous powers; to
another prophecy; to another discernments of spirits; to another
different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
(11)but all these things worketh that one and the same Spirit,
distributing peculiar gifts to every one even as he wills. (12)For as
the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one
body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ. (13)For by one
Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks,
whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one
Spirit. (14)For the body is not one member, but many. (15)If the foot
should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on
this account, not of the body? (16)And if the ear should say, Because I
am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body?
(17)If the whole body were eye, where were the hearing? If the whole
were hearing, where were the smelling? (18)But now hath God placed the
members, every one of them in the body, as he hath chosen. (19)But if
the whole were one member, where were the body? (20)But now the members
indeed are many, but the body one. (21)Nor can the eye say to the hand,
I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need
of you. (22)Yea, much more the members of the body, which appear to be
more feeble, are necessary: (23)and those parts which we esteem as the
more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour,
and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. (24)For our
comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered together the body,
giving more abundant honour to that part which lacked: (25)that there
might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the
same care one for another. (26)And if one member suffer, all the
members suffer with it; and if one member be exalted, all the members
rejoice with it. (27)Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in
particular. (28)And these also hath God placed in the church, first
apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then
gifts of healings, helpers, directors, different kinds of tongues.
(29)Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all
workers of miracles? (30)have all gifts of healings? do all speak with
tongues? do all interpret? (31)But zealously seek the gifts that are
the best: and yet I shew unto you a more transcendently excellent way.