Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 Now, concerning what you wrote about the gifts from the Holy Spirit. I want you to know the truth about them, my friends.
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Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed.
2 You know that while you were still heathen, you were led astray in many ways to the worship of lifeless idols.
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You know that when you were heathen, you were led astray to dumb idols, however you may have been moved.
3 I want you to know that no one who is led by God's Spirit can say "A curse on Jesus!" and no one can confess "Jesus is Lord," without being guided by the Holy Spirit.
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Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says "Jesus be cursed!" and no one can say "Jesus is Lord" except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.
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Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
5 There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served.
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and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
6 There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.
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and there are varieties of working, but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one.
7 The Spirit's presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all.
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To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8 The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge.
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To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
9 One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal.
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to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
10 The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.
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to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.
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All these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
12 Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.
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For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
13 In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.
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For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
14 For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
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For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
15 If the foot were to say, "Because I am not a hand, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
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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 were to say, "Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
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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.
17 If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?
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If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
18 As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.
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But as it is, God arranged the organs in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
19 There would not be a body if it were all only one part!
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If all were a single organ, where would the body be?
20 As it is, there are many parts but one body.
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As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
21 So then, the eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" Nor can the head say to the feet, "Well, I don't need you!"
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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 On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker;
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On the contrary, the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are indispensable,
23 and those parts that we think aren't worth very much are the ones which we treat with greater care; while the parts of the body which don't look very nice are treated with special modesty,
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and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we invest with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
24 which the more beautiful parts do not need. God himself has put the body together in such a way as to give greater honor to those parts that need it.
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which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the inferior part,
25 And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another.
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that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
26 If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.
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If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
27 All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part of it.
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Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
28 In the church God has put all in place: in the first place apostles, in the second place prophets, and in the third place teachers; then those who perform miracles, followed by those who are given the power to heal or to help others or to direct them or to speak in strange tongues.
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And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, speakers in various kinds of tongues.
29 They are not all apostles or prophets or teachers. Not everyone has the power to work miracles
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
30 or to heal diseases or to speak in strange tongues or to explain what is said.
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Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
31 Set your hearts, then, on the more important gifts. Best of all, however, is the following way.
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But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.