1 Corinthians 12:1-13 ▼

1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

2 You know that when you were unbelievers, you were enticed and led astray to worship idols that couldn't even speak.

3 For this reason I want you to be aware that no one who is speaking by God's Spirit can say, |Jesus is cursed,| and no one can say, |Jesus is Lord,| except by the Holy Spirit.

4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit,

5 and there are varieties of ministries, but the same Lord.

6 There are varieties of results, but it is the same God who produces all the results in everyone.

7 To each person has been given the ability to manifest the Spirit for the common good.

8 To one has been given a message of wisdom by the Spirit; to another the ability to speak with knowledge according to the same Spirit;

9 to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit;

10 to another miraculous results; to another prophecy; to another the ability to distinguish between spirits; to another various kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

11 But one and the same Spirit produces all these results and gives what he wants to each person.

12 For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

13 For by one Spirit all of us—Jews and Greeks, slaves and free—were baptized into one body and were all privileged to drink from one Spirit.