| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2You know that when you were pagans, you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore I inform you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4There are different gifts, but the same Spirit. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5There are different ministries, but the same Lord. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6There are different ways of working, but the same God works all things in all people. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by the same Spirit, |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in various tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, who apportions them to each one as He determines. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12The body is a unit, though it is composed of many parts. And although its parts are many, they all form one body. So it is with Christ. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free, and we were all given one Spirit to drink. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For the body does not consist of one part, but of many. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But in fact, God has arranged the members of the body, every one of them, according to His design. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If they were all one part, where would the body be? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20As it is, there are many parts, but one body. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you.” Nor can the head say to the feet, “I do not need you.” |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23and the parts we consider less honorable, we treat with greater honor. And our unpresentable parts are treated with special modesty, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24whereas our presentable parts have no such need. But God has composed the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25so that there should be no division in the body, but that its members should have mutual concern for one another. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Now you are the body of Christ, and each of you is a member of it. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing, helping, administration, and various tongues. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you the most excellent way. |
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