• Spiritual Gifts: Unity in Diversity

  • 1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
  • 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.
  • 3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
  • 4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
  • 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
  • 6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
  • 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
  • 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,
  • 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
  • 10 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.
  • 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.

  • Unity and Diversity in One Body

  • 12 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.
  • 13 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.
  • 14 For in fact the body is not one member but many.
  • 15 If the foot should 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 should 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 be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling?
  • 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.
  • 19 And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
  • 20 But now indeed there are many members, yet one body.
  • 21 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.”
  • 22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
  • 23 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,
  • 24 but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it,
  • 25 that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
  • 26 And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
  • 27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
  • 28 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.
  • 29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?
  • 30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
  • 31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.