And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. That there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith or ministry, let us use it in our ministering he who teaches, in teaching he who exhorts, in exhortation he who gives, with liberality he who leads, with diligence he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness. Therefore He says:Īnd gave gifts to men.' (Now this, 'He ascended''what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.) And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head-Christ- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.įor as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.īut to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, And the eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of you' nor again the head to the feet, 'I have no need of you.' No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. And if they were all one member, where would the body be? But now indeed there are many members, yet one body. If the foot should say, 'Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body,' is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear should say, 'Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,' is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. For in fact the body is not one member but many. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free-and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

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

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

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