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1 Corinthians 12

Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA

1 Now, concerning what you wrote about the gifts from the Holy Spirit. I want you to know the truth about them, my friends.

2 You know that while you were still heathen, you were led astray in many ways to the worship of lifeless idols.

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.

4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.

5 There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served.

6 There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.

7 The Spirit's presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all.

8 The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge.

9 One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal.

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.

11 But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.

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.

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.

14 For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.

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.

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.

17 If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?

18 As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.

19 There would not be a body if it were all only one part!

20 As it is, there are many parts but 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!"

22 On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker;

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,

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.

25 And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern 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.

27 All of you are Christ's body, and each one is a part 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.

29 They are not all apostles or prophets or teachers. Not everyone has the power to work miracles

30 or to heal diseases or to speak in strange tongues or to explain what is said.

31 Set your hearts, then, on the more important gifts. Best of all, however, is the following way.

New International Version NIV

1 Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.

3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.

5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.

6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

7 Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.

8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit,

9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit,

10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.

11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ.

13 For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

14 Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.

15 Now if the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be?

18 But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be.

19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?

20 As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

23 and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty,

24 while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has put the body together, giving greater honor to the parts that lacked it,

25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.

26 If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

27 Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.

28 And God has placed in the church first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, of helping, of guidance, and of different kinds of tongues.

29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?

30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues ? Do all interpret?

31 Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way.