Spiritual Gifts: Unity in Diversity

1Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

2You know that when you were pagans, how you were led astray, being carried away to these speechless idols.

3Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

4Now there are varieties of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit.

5And there are varieties of ministries, but the same Lord.

6And there are varieties of activities, but the same God works all in all.

7But to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the profit of all.

8For to one is given a word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

9and to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,

10to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, and to another different kinds of tongues, and to another interpretation of tongues.

11But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

Unity and Diversity in One Body

12For just as the body is one and has many parts, but all the parts of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

13For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all given to drink into one Spirit.

14For in fact the body is not one part but many.

15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?

16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?

17If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

18But now God has set the parts, each one of them, in the body just as He desired.

19And if they were all one part, where would be the body?

20But now indeed there are many parts, but one body.

21And the 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.”

22But to a greater degree the parts of the body which seem weaker are necessary.

23And the parts of the body which we consider to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater propriety.

24But our presentable parts have no need. But God has united the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacks it,

25lest there be divisions in the body, but the parts care the same for one another.

26And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together; or if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.

27Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.

28And those whom God has appointed in the church are: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?

30Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

31But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.