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Text -- 1 Corinthians 12:1-28 (NET)
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Spiritual Gifts
12:1 With regard to spiritual gifts , brothers and sisters , I do not want you to be uninformed .
12:2 You know that when you were pagans you were often led astray by speechless idols , however you were led .
12:3 So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says , “Jesus is cursed ,” and no one can say , “Jesus is Lord ,” except by the Holy Spirit .
12:4 Now there are different gifts , but the same Spirit .
12:5 And there are different ministries , but the same Lord .
12:6 And there are different results , but the same God who produces all of them in everyone .
12:7 To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all.
12:8 For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom , and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit ,
12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit , and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit ,
12:10 to another performance of miracles , to another prophecy , and to another discernment of spirits , to another different kinds of tongues , and to another the interpretation of tongues .
12:11 It is one and the same Spirit , distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things .
Different Members in One Body
12:12 For just as the body is one and yet has many members , and all the members of the body – though many – are one body , so too is Christ .
12:13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body . Whether Jews or Greeks or slaves or free , we were all made to drink of the one Spirit .
12:14 For in fact the body is not a single member , but many .
12:15 If the foot says , “Since I am not a hand , I am not part of the body ,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that .
12:16 And if the ear says , “Since I am not an eye , I am not part of the body ,” it does not lose its membership in the body because of that .
12:17 If the whole body were an eye , what part would do the hearing ? If the whole were an ear , what part would exercise the sense of smell ?
12:18 But as a matter of fact, God has placed each of the members in the body just as he decided .
12:19 If they were all the same member , where would the body be?
12:20 So now there are many members , but one body .
12:21 The eye cannot say to the hand , “I do not need you ,” nor in turn can the head say to the foot , “I do not need you .”
12:22 On the contrary , those members that seem to be weaker are essential ,
12:23 and those members we consider less honorable we clothe with greater honor , and our unpresentable members are clothed with dignity ,
12:24 but our presentable members do not need need this. Instead , God has blended together the body , giving greater honor to the lesser member ,
12:25 so that there may be no division in the body , but the members may have mutual concern for one another .
12:26 If one member suffers , everyone suffers with it. If a member is honored , all rejoice with it.
12:27 Now you are Christ’s body , and each of you is a member of it .
12:28 And God has placed in the church first apostles , second prophets , third teachers , then miracles , gifts of healing , helps , gifts of leadership , different kinds of tongues .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
TONGUES, GIFT OF |
GIFT |
HOLY SPIRIT, 2 |
EPHESIANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
TONGUES OF FIRE |
COMMUNION; (FELLOWSHIP) |
CHURCH GOVERNMENT |
Charismata |
Church |
HEALING |
MEMBER |
REDEEMER; REDEMPTION |
SPIRITUAL GIFTS |
PAULINE THEOLOGY |
HEALING, GIFTS OF |
TEACH; TEACHER; TEACHING |
Holy Spirit |
GRACE |
Gifts from God |
Miracles |
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