1 Corinthians 12:4-6 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.… Break off an elan bough three feet long, in full leaf, and lay it on the table before you, and try to draw it, leaf for leaf. It is ten to one if in the whole bough (provided you do not twist it about as you work) you find one form of a leaf exactly like another; perhaps you will not even have one complete. Every leaf will be oblique, or foreshortened, or curled, or crossed by another, or shaded by another, or have something or other the matter with it; and though the whole bough will look graceful and symmetrical, you will scarcely be able to tell how or why it does so, since there is not one line of it like another. (J. Ruskin.) Parallel Verses KJV: Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.WEB: Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. |
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