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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now concerning spiritual gifts: brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be unaware. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2You know that when you were pagans, you used to be enticed and led astray by mute idols. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Now there 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] | 6And there are different activities, but the same God produces each gift in each person. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7A manifestation of the Spirit is given to each person for the common good: |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8to one is given a message of wisdom through the Spirit, to another, a 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 the one Spirit, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10to another, the performing of miracles, to another, prophecy, to another, distinguishing between spirits, to another, different kinds of tongues, to another, interpretation of tongues. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11One and the same Spirit is active in all these, distributing to each person as he wills. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body--so also is Christ. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and we were all given one Spirit to drink. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Indeed, the body is not one part but many. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15If the foot should say, "Because I'm not a hand, I don't belong to the body," it is not for that reason any less a part of the body. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16And if the ear should say, "Because I'm not an eye, I don't belong to the body," it is not for that reason 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 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 as it is, God has arranged each one of the parts in the body just as he wanted. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19And if they were all the same 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 don't need you!" Or again, the head can't say to the feet, "I don't need you!" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22On the contrary, those parts of the body that are weaker are indispensable. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23And those parts of the body that we consider less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unrespectable parts are treated with greater respect, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24which our respectable parts do not need. Instead, God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the less honorable, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25so that there would be no division in the body, but that the members would have the same concern for each other. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26So if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Now you are the body of Christ, and individual members of it. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, various kinds of tongues. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in other tongues? Do all interpret? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But desire the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way. |
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