12:1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant:

12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led:

12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost:

12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit:

12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord:

12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all:

12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal:

12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit:

12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit:

12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will:

12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also [is] Christ:

12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Jews or Gentiles, whether [we be] bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit:

12:14 For the body is not one member, but many:

12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body:

12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body:

12:17 If the whole body [were] an eye, where [were] the hearing? If the whole [were] hearing, where [were] the smelling:

12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him:

12:19 And if they were all one member, where [were] the body:

12:20 But now [are they] many members, yet but one body:

12:21 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:

12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

12:23 And those [members] of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely [parts] have more abundant comeliness:

12:24 For our comely [parts] have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that [part] which lacked:

12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but [that] the members should have the same care one for another:

12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it:

12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular:

12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues:

12:29 all apostles? [are] all prophets? [are] all teachers? [are] all workers of miracles:

12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret:

12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way: