Thematic Bible
1 Corinthians 12:1 (show verse)
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be uninformed.
1 Corinthians 12:2 (show verse)
You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to mute idols, however you may have been moved.
1 Corinthians 12:3 (show verse)
Therefore I tell you 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.
1 Corinthians 12:4 (show verse)
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:5 (show verse)
And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord.
1 Corinthians 12:6 (show verse)
There are varieties of working, but the same God who works all of them in all men.
1 Corinthians 12:7 (show verse)
But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
1 Corinthians 12:8 (show verse)
To one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:9 (show verse)
to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
1 Corinthians 12:10 (show verse)
and to another the working of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another distinguishing between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:11 (show verse)
But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as he wills.
1 Corinthians 12:12 (show verse)
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
1 Corinthians 12:13 (show verse)
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodywhether Jews or Greeks, slaves or freeand we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:14 (show verse)
For the body is not made up of one member but of many.
1 Corinthians 12:15 (show verse)
If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason be any less a part of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:16 (show verse)
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 be any less a part of the body.
1 Corinthians 12:17 (show verse)
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?
1 Corinthians 12:18 (show verse)
But now God has arranged the members in the body, each one of them, just as he desired.
1 Corinthians 12:19 (show verse)
If they were all one member, where would the body be?
1 Corinthians 12:20 (show verse)
As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
1 Corinthians 12:21 (show verse)
And 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."
1 Corinthians 12:22 (show verse)
On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
1 Corinthians 12:23 (show verse)
and those parts of the body which we think less honorable we treat with the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,
1 Corinthians 12:24 (show verse)
while our more presentable members have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving the greater honor to the parts that lacked it,
1 Corinthians 12:25 (show verse)
so that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
1 Corinthians 12:26 (show verse)
And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
1 Corinthians 12:27 (show verse)
Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.
1 Corinthians 12:28 (show verse)
And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, then those having gifts of healings, helps, administrations, and those speaking in various kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 12:29 (show verse)
Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
1 Corinthians 12:30 (show verse)
Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
1 Corinthians 12:31 (show verse)
But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.