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¹About spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.

²You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to idols who could not speak, in whatever ways you were led by them.

³Therefore I want you to know that no one who speaks by the Spirit of God can say, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

⁴Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁵There are different ministries, but the same Lord;

⁶and there are different kinds of work, but it is the same God who makes them possible in everyone.

⁷Now to each one is given the outward display of the Spirit for the benefit of all.

⁸For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit.

⁹To another is given faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit.

¹⁰To another is given deeds of power, and to another prophecy. To another is given the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

¹¹All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, giving the gifts to each one individually, as he chooses.

¹²For as the body is one and has many members and all are members of the same body, so it is with Christ.

¹³For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bound or free, and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

¹⁴For the body is not a single member, but many.

¹⁵If the foot says, “Since I am not the hand, I am not part of the body,” it is not any less a part of the body.

¹⁶And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body,” it is not any less a part of the body.

¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

¹⁸But God arranged each part of the body as he designed it.

¹⁹If they were all the same member, where would the body be?

²⁰So now they are many members, but only one body.

²¹The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you.” Nor does the head say to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

²²But the members of the body that appear to be weaker are essential,

²³and the parts of the body that we think are less honorable, we give them greater honor, and our unpresentable members have more dignity.

²⁴Now our presentable members have no need to be treated with dignity, for they already have dignity. But God has joined all the members together, and he gave more honor to those that lacked it.

²⁵He did this so there may be no division within the body, but that the members should care for one another with the same affection.

²⁶So when one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice together.

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

²⁸And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then those who do powerful deeds, then gifts of healing, those who provide helps, those who do the work of administration, and those who have various kinds of tongues.

²⁹Are all of them apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do powerful deeds?

³⁰Do all of them have gifts of healing? Do all of them speak with tongues? Do all of them interpret tongues?

³¹Zealously seek the greater gifts. But I will show you a more excellent way.