1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
2You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to mute idols, however you happened to be led.
3Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
4Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
5and there are varieties of ministries, but the same Lord;
6and there are varieties of workings, but the same God who works all things in all.
7But to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8For to one is given through the Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
9to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings by the one Spirit,
10to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernings of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
11But all these are worked by one and the same Spirit, distributing to each individually just as he wills.
12For just as the body is one and has many members, yet all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ.
13For indeed in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.
14For indeed the body is not one member but many.
15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not part of the body,” it is not for this reason not part of the body.
16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it is not for this reason not part of the body.
17If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body just as he willed.
19And if they were all a single member, where would the body be?
20But now there are many members, yet one body.
21The 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.”
22On the contrary, much more the members of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23and the parts of the body we consider less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,
24whereas our presentable parts have no need of it. But God has blended the body together, giving more abundant honor to the part that lacked it,
25so that there might be no division in the body, but that the members might have the same care for one another.
26And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; if a member is glorified, all the members rejoice together.
27Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
28And God has placed some in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, guidance, kinds of tongues.
29Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets? Not all are teachers? Not all work miracles?
30Not all have gifts of healings, do they? Not all speak in tongues? Not all interpret?
31But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you a still more excellent way.
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