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1 Corinthians 12 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Concerning Spiritual Gifts

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Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:2 - You know that when you were pagans, you were being led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:3 - Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking [fn]by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is [fn]accursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except [fn]by the Holy Spirit.

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Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:5 - And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:6 - And there are varieties of workings, but the same God who works everything in everyone.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:7 - But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:8 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:9 - to someone else faith [fn]by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of [fn]healing [fn]by the one Spirit,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:10 - and to another the workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the [fn]distinguishing of spirits, to someone else various kinds of tongues, and to another the [fn]translation of tongues.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:11 - But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.
(cf. Eph 4:1–16 )

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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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:13 - For also [fn]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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For also the body is not one member, but many.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:15 - If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason [fn]any the less a part of the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:16 - 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 [fn]any the less a part of the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:17 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:18 - But now God has appointed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:19 - And if they were all one member, where would the body be?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:20 - But now there are many members, but one body.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:21 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:22 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:23 - and those members of the body which we think as less honorable, [fn]on these we bestow more abundant honor, and our less presentable members become much more presentable,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:24 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:25 - so that there may be no [fn]division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:26 - And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if one member is [fn]honored, all the members rejoice with it.

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Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:28 - And God has [fn]appointed in the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then [fn]miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, various kinds of tongues.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:29 - Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of [fn]miracles?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:30 - Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all [fn]translate?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Co 12:31 - But [fn]you earnestly desire the greater gifts.

And I will yet show you a more excellent way.

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