1 Corinthians 12:6-16

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

One Body with Many Members

12 For just as 14the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, 15so it is with Christ.
13 For 16in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--17Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or free--and 18all 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.
16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.

Cross References 18

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

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Or servants; Greek bondservants
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