One Spirit, many gifts
1Now about spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters: I do not want you to be unaware. 2You know that when you were Gentiles you were carried away, again and again, to idols that could not speak. 3So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. 4There are different gifts, but the same Spirit; 5different kinds of service, but the same Lord; 6different ways of working, but the same God, who works all of them in everyone. 7To each is given the showing of the Spirit for the common good. 8To one the Spirit gives a word of wisdom, to another a word of knowledge by the same Spirit, 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discerning of spirits, to another kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11All of these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who distributes them to each as he chooses.
One body, many parts
12For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, many as they are, form one body, so it is with the Christ. 13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body — Jews or Greeks, slaves or free — and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. 14The body is not one part but many. 15If the foot said, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less part of the body. 16And if the ear said, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less part of the body. 17If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18But in fact God arranged the parts, each one of them, in the body as he wished. 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body. 21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” 22On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem weakest are the ones we cannot do without, 23and the parts we think least honorable we surround with the greatest honor; our unpresentable parts are treated with special care, 24which our presentable parts do not need. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, 25so that there would be no split in the body, but the parts would care for one another alike. 26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. 27You are the body of Christ, and each of you a part of it. 28And in the church God has appointed first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then miracles, then gifts of healing, help for others, guidance, kinds of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31Set your heart on the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way beyond all of them.
