Spiritual gifts and abilities
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📚✭Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. 2 📚✭You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to dumb idols✭, being led somehow. 3 📚Therefore I give you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed✭, and that no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.4 📚✭Now there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 📚And there are various kinds of ministries, but the same Lord. 6 📚And there are various kinds of working, but it is the same God who works all in all.
7 📚✭✭ But the manifestation✭ of the Spirit is given to each one for the benefit of all. 8 📚✭For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom✭; to another the word of knowledge through 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 various kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues✭. 11 📚✭But one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one individually as he wills.
One body of Christ, many spiritual gifts
12 📚✭For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 13 📚For with one Spirit we were all baptized✭ into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slave or free, and have all been given to drink into one Spirit✭.
14 📚✭For the body is not one member, but many. 15 📚If the foot should say, “Because I am not the hand, I do not belong to the body”, does it therefore not belong to the body? 16 📚And if the ear should say, “Because I am not the eye, I do not belong to the body”, does it therefore not belong to the body? 17 📚If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be? 18 📚✭But now God has set each member in the body as it pleased him. 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 📚But now they are many members, yet but one body.
21 📚✭And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; again, the head cannot say to the feet, “I have no need of you”. 22 📚Not at all. Those members of the body which seem to be weaker are much more necessary, 23 📚And those members of the body which we think are less honourable, to them we give more honour, and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty. 24 📚For our presentable parts have no need of it. But God has joined the body together, giving the greater honour to that part which lacked it, 25 📚so that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care✭ for one another, 26 📚and if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it, or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
27 📚✭Now you are the body of Christ, individual members of it. 28 📚And God has placed✭ these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healing, helps✭, administrations, different kinds 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 earnestly desire the best gifts✭. And yet I show you a more excellent way✭.