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Chapter 12 |
| 1 |
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you
ignorant. |
| 2 | Ye know that
ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. |
| 3 | Wherefore I give you to
understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed:
and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. |
| 4 | Now there are diversities of
gifts, but the same Spirit. |
| 5 |
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. |
| 6 | And there are diversities of
operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. |
| 7 | But the manifestation of the Spirit is
given to every man to profit withal. |
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8 | For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another
the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; |
| 9 | To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts
of healing by the same Spirit; |
| 10
| To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another
discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the
interpretation of tongues: |
| 11
| But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to
every man severally as he will. |
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12 | For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the
members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. |
| 13 | For by one Spirit are we all
baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or
free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. |
| 14 | For the body is not one member, but
many. |
| 15 | If the foot
shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not
of the body? |
| 16 | And if
the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body? |
| 17
| If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole
were hearing, where were the smelling? |
| 18 | But now hath God set the members every one of them in
the body, as it hath pleased him. |
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19 | And if they were all one member, where were the body? |
| 20 | But now are they many members,
yet but one body. |
| 21 | And
the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to
the feet, I have no need of you. |
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22 | Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more
feeble, are necessary: |
| 23 |
And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon
these 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 the body together, having
given more abundant honour to that part which lacked. |
| 25 | That there should be no schism in the
body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. |
| 26 | And whether one member suffer,
all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members
rejoice with it. |
| 27 | Now
ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. |
| 28 | And God hath set some in the church,
first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles,
then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. |
| 29 | Are all apostles? are all
prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? |
| 30 | Have all the gifts of healing? do all
speak with tongues? do all interpret? |
| 31 | But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto
you a more excellent way. |
