¹ Now concerning the spiritual things, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

² Ye know that, while Gentiles, ye were being carried away to the voiceless idols, as ye were led.

³ Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no man 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 services, and the same Lord.

⁶ And there are varieties of functions, but it is the same God who works all in all.

⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each man toward that which is beneficial.

⁸ For to one, the word of wisdom is given through the Spirit, and to another, the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

⁹ to a different man, faith by the same Spirit, and to another, gifts of healings by the same Spirit,

¹⁰ and to another, workings of miracles, and to another, prophecy, and to another, discerning of spirits, and to a different man, kinds of tongues, and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

¹¹ But the one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each man individually as it wills.

¹² For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body, being many, are one body, so also is the Christ.

¹³ For also by one Spirit we are all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or freemen, and we were all made to drink into one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body also is not one part, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot should say, Because I am not a hand I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

¹⁶ And if the ear should say, Because I am not an eye I am not of the body, it is not by this not of the body.

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?

¹⁸ But now God has placed the parts, each one of them, in the body just as he intended.

¹⁹ And if they were all one part, where would be the body?

²⁰ But now of course there are many body-parts, but one body.

²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of thee, nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

²² Instead, much more the parts of the body that seem to be more feeble are necessary.

²³ And those things of the body presumed to be without esteem, we place around these more abundant worth. And our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety,

²⁴ whereas our presentable parts have no need. Instead, God united the body together, having given more abundant worth to the part that lacks,

²⁵ so that there would be no schisms in the body, but that the parts would have the same care for each other.

²⁶ And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer together, or one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and body-parts individually.

²⁸ And in the church God has placed men who are first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, kinds of tongues.

²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all do miracles?

³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

³¹ But be zealous for the better gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.