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

²You know that when you were pagans, you were led to the mute idols, even as you were being carried away.

³Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says: Jesus is accursed, and no one is able to say: Jesus is Lord, except only in the Holy Spirit.

⁴Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

⁵and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord;

⁶and there are varieties of workings, but God is the same, who is working all things in everyone.

⁷Now to each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common profiting.

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

⁹now to a different one trust by the same Spirit, now to another gifts of healing in that one Spirit,

¹⁰now to another working of miracles, now to another prophecy, now to another distinguishing of spirits, now to a different one various kinds of tongues, now to another interpretation of tongues;

¹¹now all these things the one and the same Spirit works, apportioning individually to each, even as He wills.

¹²For just as the body is one and has many members, now all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is the Anointed One.

¹³For also in one Spirit we ourselves all were immersed into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and all were made to drink into one Spirit.

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

¹⁵If the foot shall say: because I am not a hand, I am not of the body, is it not of the body on account of this?

¹⁶And if the ear shall say: because I am not an eye, I am not of the body, is it not of the body on account of this?

¹⁷If all the body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If all were hearing, where would be the sense of smell?

¹⁸However now God has arranged the members, each one of them in the body, even as He desired.

¹⁹Now if the all were one member, where would be the body?

²⁰However now the members indeed are many, however there is one body.

²¹Now the eye is not able to say to the hand: I have not need of you; or again the head to the feet: I have not need of you;

²²but much rather those members of the body seeming to be weaker are indispensable,

²³and those of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow more excessive honor, and our unpresentable parts have more excessive decorum;

²⁴and our presentable parts have no need. But God, who has composed the body, having given more excessive honor to that which is become lacking,

²⁵so that there may not be division in the body, but the members may have the same concern for one another;

²⁶and if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷Now you yourselves are the body of the Anointed One, and members in particular.

²⁸And God has appointed some indeed in the assembly, first sent ones, secondly prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, various kinds of tongues.

²⁹Surely not all are sent ones? Surely not all are prophets? Surely not all are teachers? Surely not all do miracles?

³⁰Surely not all have gifts of healings? Surely not all do speak in tongues? Surely not all do interpret?

³¹However, be desirous of the greater gifts. And now I show to you a more surpassing way.