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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now concerning 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 led astray to mute idols, however you were led. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to 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 working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are 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—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For the body does not consist of one member 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 be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19If all were a single member, where would the body be? |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The 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.” |
| 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 on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of 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 possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. |
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