¹ NOW concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

² Ye know that ye were Gentiles, drawn away after the idols that are dumb, even as ye have been led.

³ Wherefore I advertise you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, call Jesus anathema: and no man can say, Lord Jesus, but by the Holy Ghost.

⁴ But there are diversities of gifts, though the same Spirit.

⁵ And there are diversities of services, but the same Lord.

⁶ And there are diversities of mighty operations, but it is the same God who worketh all in all.

⁷ Now to every one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for usefulness.

⁸ For to one man by the Spirit is given wise discourse; but to another speech communicative of knowledge by the same Spirit;

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

¹⁰ to another miraculous powers; to another prophecy; to another discernments of spirits; to another different kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

¹¹ but all these things worketh that one and the same Spirit, distributing peculiar gifts to every one even as he wills.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, but all the members of that one body, though many, are one body: so also is Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit we all have been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free men; and we have all been made to drink into one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot should say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it, on this account, not of the body?

¹⁶ And if the ear should say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it not therefore of the body?

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

¹⁸ But now hath God placed the members, every one of them in the body, as he hath chosen.

¹⁹ But if the whole were one member, where were the body?

²⁰ But now the members indeed are many, but the body one.

²¹ Nor can the eye say to the hand, I have no need of thee: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

²² Yea, much more the members of the body, which appear to be more feeble, are necessary:

²³ and those parts which we esteem as the more dishonourable of the body, on them we bestow more abundant honour, and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

²⁴ For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered together the body, giving more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

²⁵ that there might be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

²⁶ And if one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; and if one member be exalted, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

²⁸ And these also hath God placed in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, next miracles, then gifts of healings, helpers, directors, different kinds of tongues.

²⁹ Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

³⁰ have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

³¹ But zealously seek the gifts that are the best: and yet I shew unto you a more transcendently excellent way.