1 Coríntios 12

Gifts from the one Spirit

¹Now about spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters: I want you to be well informed.^{a 2}You know how it was when you were pagans: you were swept off to idols that cannot speak, carried away whichever way you were led. ³That is why I am making this clear to you: nobody who speaks through God’s Spirit ever says, “Jesus is cursed,” and nobody can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except through the Holy Spirit.

⁴Gifts are given out in different ways, but it is the same Spirit who gives them. ⁵Ministries are given out in different ways, and it is the same Lord who is served. ⁶Workings of power are given out in different ways, but it is the same God who works all of them in everyone. ⁷Each person is given a way in which the Spirit is openly at work, and it is given for the good of all. ⁸Through the Spirit one person is given a message of wisdom; another, by the same Spirit, a message of knowledge; ⁹another, by the same Spirit, faith; another, by the one Spirit, gifts of healing; ¹⁰another, the power to work miracles; another, prophecy; another, the ability to tell spirits apart; another, different kinds of tongues; and another, the interpretation of tongues.^{b 11}One and the same Spirit is at work in all of these, giving to each person separately as he chooses.

One body with many parts

¹²A body is a single whole, and yet it has many parts; all its parts, many as they are, make up one body. It is the same with Christ. ¹³Indeed, all of us were baptized in one Spirit into one body, whether we were Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and all of us were given one Spirit to drink.^c

¹⁴After all, a body does not consist of one part. It has many. ¹⁵Suppose the foot says, “I am not a hand, so I do not belong to the body.” Would it belong to the body any less for that? ¹⁶And if the ear says, “I am not an eye, so I do not belong to the body,” it does not belong to the body any less for that. ¹⁷If the body were nothing but an eye, how would it hear? If it were all ear, what would it smell with? ¹⁸But as things are, God has arranged each and every part in the body as he saw fit. ¹⁹If the whole were one single part, what kind of body would that be? ²⁰As it is, the parts are many, but the body is one. ²¹So the eye cannot tell the hand, “I can do without you,” and the head cannot tell the feet, “I can do without you.” ²²Quite the reverse. The parts of the body that seem weaker are all the more necessary. ²³The parts we think deserve less honor are the very ones we clothe with greater honor, and the parts we do not show are covered with greater care for decency, ²⁴while the parts we can show need no such care. But God has blended the body together and given more honor to the part that falls short, ²⁵so that the body would not be split apart, but its parts would all care for one another alike. ²⁶If one part is in pain, all the parts share its pain; if one part is honored, all the parts share its joy.

You are the body of Christ

²⁷You are Christ’s body, and each of you individually is one of its parts. ²⁸In the church God has placed some people: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers. After them come miracles, then gifts of healing, the ability to help, the ability to guide, and different kinds of tongues. ²⁹Is everyone an apostle? Is everyone a prophet? Is everyone a teacher? Does everyone work miracles? ³⁰Does everyone have gifts of healing? Does everyone speak in tongues? Does everyone interpret? ³¹But set your hearts on the greater gifts.^d And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.