1 Corinthians 12 — The Spirit's gifts and the one body — Greek text and reception

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Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

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You know that when you were Gentiles, you were carried away to the mute idols, however you were led.

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Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in God's Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except in the Holy Spirit.

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There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

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and there are varieties of service, and the same Lord;

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and there are varieties of workings, but the same God, who works all things in everyone.

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To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common benefit.

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For to one a word of wisdom is given through the Spirit, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

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to another faith in the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings in the one Spirit;

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to another workings of power, to another prophecy, to another discernments of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues.

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But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each individually just as He wills.

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For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the body's members, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.

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For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink.

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For the body is not one member but many.

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If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it does not thereby cease to be part of the body, does it?

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And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it does not thereby cease to be part of the body.

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If the whole body were an eye, where would hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?

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But as it is, God placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as He wished.

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If they were all one member, where would the body be?

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But as it is, there are many members, yet one body.

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The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

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On the contrary, the members of the body that seem weaker are much more necessary,

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and those parts of the body we consider less honorable, we clothe with greater honor; and our unpresentable parts receive greater modesty,

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while our presentable parts have no need of it. But God combined the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,

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so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

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If one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice together.

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Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it.

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God has appointed in the Church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then works of power, then gifts of healings, helps, forms of guidance, and kinds of tongues.

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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all perform works of power?

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Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret?

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But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show you a way beyond all comparison.