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95 lines
3.7 KiB
Markdown
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## Concerning Spiritual Gifts
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###### 1
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Now concerning spiritual _gifts_, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.
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###### 2
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You know that when you were pagans, _you were_ being led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.
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###### 3
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Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
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###### 4
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Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
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###### 5
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And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.
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###### 6
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And there are varieties of workings, but the same God who works everything in everyone.
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###### 7
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But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable.
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###### 8
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For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;
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###### 9
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to someone else faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
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###### 10
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and to another the workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to someone else _various_ kinds of tongues, and to another the translation of tongues.
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###### 11
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But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
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###### 12
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For even as the body is one and _yet_ has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
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###### 13
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For also by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
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###### 14
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For also the body is not one member, but many.
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###### 15
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If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand, I am not _a part_ of the body," it is not for this reason any the less _a part_ of the body.
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And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye, I am not _a part_ of the body," it is not for this reason any the less _a part_ of the body.
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###### 17
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If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
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###### 18
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But now God has appointed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.
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And if they were all one member, where would the body be?
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###### 20
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But now there are many members, but one body.
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###### 21
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And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you"; or again the head to the feet, "I have no need of you."
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###### 22
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On the contrary, _how_ much more is it that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary,
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###### 23
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and those _members_ of the body which we think as less honorable, on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,
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###### 24
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whereas our more presentable members have no _such_ need. But God has _so_ composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that _member_ which lacked,
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###### 25
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so that there may be no division in the body, but _that_ the members may have the same care for one another.
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###### 26
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And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if _one_ member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
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###### 27
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Now you are Christ's body, and individually members of it.
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###### 28
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And God has appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, _various_ kinds of tongues.
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###### 29
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Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all _workers of_ miracles?
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###### 30
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Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all translate?
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###### 31
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But you earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I will yet show you a more excellent way.
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