¹ Now regarding spiritual things, brothers, I would not have you ignore [them].

² Ye know that when ye were Gentiles, ye went, even as ye were led, unto the dumb idols.

³ Therefore I give you to understand, that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus anathema and [that] no one can call Jesus Lord but by [the] Holy Spirit.

⁴ Now there is dispersal of gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁵ And there is dispersal of ministries, but the same Lord.

⁶ And there is dispersal of operations, but it is the same God who works all in each one.

⁷ But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one to profit with.

⁸ For to one is given by the Spirit a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

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

¹⁰ to another, [the] operation of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, [different] kinds of tongues; to another, the interpretation of tongues:

¹¹ one and the same Spirit operates all these things, dispersing to each one his own [gift] as he wills.

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

¹³ For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether [we are] Jews or Greeks, whether [we are] bond or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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

¹⁵ If the foot shall say, Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

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

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

¹⁸ But now God has set the members each one of them in the body, as it has pleased him.

¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where [would] the body [be]?

²⁰ But now [they are] indeed many members, yet but one body.

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

²² For those members of the body, which seem to be weaker, are much more necessary;

²³ and those [members] of the body which we think to be more vile, these we dress with more abundant honour; and those in us who are [more] indecent have more honesty.

²⁴ For those in us who are more honest need nothing, but God has ordered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [one] which lacked,

²⁵ that there should be no contradiction in the body, but [that] the members should have the same care one for another.

²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer together; or if one member is honoured, all the members rejoice together.

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

²⁸ And God did set certain [ones] in the church: first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that faculties, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

²⁹ [Are] all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [do] all [have] faculties?

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

³¹ But earnestly pursue the best gifts, and yet I show unto you a more excellent way.: