1 Corinthians 12:5-15

5 and 1there are varieties of service, but 2the same Lord;
6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is 3the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
7 4To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of 5wisdom, and to another the utterance of 6knowledge according to the same Spirit,
9 to another 7faith by the same Spirit, to another 8gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
10 to another 9the working of miracles, to another 10prophecy, to another 11the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another 12various kinds of tongues, to another 13the interpretation of tongues.
11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, 14who apportions to each one individually 15as he wills.

One Body with Many Members

12 For just as 16the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, 17so it is with Christ.
13 For 18in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--19Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or free--and 20all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

Cross References 20

  • 1. Romans 12:7; [Ephesians 4:11]
  • 2. [See ver. 4 above]
  • 3. [See ver. 4 above]
  • 4. Ephesians 4:7; [1 Corinthians 14:26; Romans 12:3]
  • 5. 1 Corinthians 2:6, 7
  • 6. See 1 Corinthians 1:5
  • 7. 1 Corinthians 13:2; 2 Corinthians 4:13
  • 8. ver. 28, 30
  • 9. ver. 28, 29; [Galatians 3:5]
  • 10. 1 Corinthians 13:2, 8; 1 Corinthians 14:1
  • 11. [1 Corinthians 14:29; 1 John 4:1]
  • 12. See Mark 16:17
  • 13. ver. 30; 1 Corinthians 14:26
  • 14. [2 Corinthians 10:13]
  • 15. Hebrews 2:4
  • 16. See 1 Corinthians 10:17
  • 17. ver. 27
  • 18. [Romans 6:5; Ephesians 2:18]
  • 19. Galatians 3:28; Colossians 3:11; [Ephesians 2:13-17]
  • 20. [John 7:37-39]

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or servants; Greek bondservants
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