1 Corinthians 12:1-21 ▼

1 In spirituall thinges brethren I wolde not have you ignoraunt.

2 Ye knowe that ye were gentyls and went youre wayes vnto domme ydoles even as ye were ledde.

3 Wherfore I declare vnto you that no man speakynge in the sprete of god defieth Iesus. Also no man can saye that Iesus is the lorde: but by the holy goost.

4 Ther are diversities of gyftes verely yet but one sprete.

5 And ther are differences of administracions and yet but one lorde.

6 And ther are divers maners of operacions and yet but one God which worketh all thinges that are wrought in all creatures.

7 The gyftes of ye sprete are geven to every man to proffit ye congregacion.

8 To one is geven thorow the spirite the vtteraunce of wisdome? To another is geven the vtteraunce of knowledge by ye same sprete.

9 To another is geuen fayth by ye same sprete. To another ye gyftes of healynge by the same sprete.

10 To another power to do myracles. To another prophesie? To another iudgement of spretes. To another divers tonges. To another the interpretacion of toges.

11 And these all worketh eve ye silfe same sprete devydynge to every man severall gyftes even as he will.

12 For as the body is one and hath many mebres and all the membres of one body though they be many yet are but one body: even so is Christ.

13 For in one sprete are we all baptysed to make one body whether we be Iewes or getyls whether we be bonde or fre: and have all dronke of one sprete.

14 For the body is not one member but many.

15 Yf the fote saye: I am not the honde therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of ye body:

16 And if ye eare saye I am not the eye: therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body?

17 If all the body were an eye where were then the eare? If all were hearynge: where were the smellynge?

18 But now hath god disposed the membres every one of them in the body at his awne pleasure.

19 If they were all one member: where were the body?

20 Now are ther many membres yet but one body.

21 And the eye can not saye vnto the honde I have no nede of the: nor ye heed also to the fete. I have no nede of you.