THE FIRST EPISTLE of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians. Chapter 12

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CHAP. XII.

1 Spirituall gifts 4 are diuers, 7 yet all to profit withall. 8 And to that ende, are diuersly bestowed: 12 That by the like proportion, as the members of a naturall body, tend all to the 16 mutuall decency, 22 seruice, and 26 succour of the same body; 27 so wee should doe one for another, to make vp the mysticall body of Christ.

¹Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.

²Yee know that yee were Gentiles, caryed away vnto these dumbe idoles, euen as ye were led.

³Wherefore I giue you to vnderstand, that no man speaking by the spirit of God, calleth Iesus accursed: and that no man can say that Iesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.³

⁴Nowe there are diuersities of gifts, but the same spirit.

⁵And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

⁶And there are diuersities of operations, but it is the same God, which worketh all in all.

⁷But the manifestation of the spirit, is giuen to euery man to profit withall.

⁸For to one is giuen by the spirit, the word of wisedome, to another the word of knowledge, by the same spirit.

⁹To another faith, by the same spirit: to another the gifts of healing, by the same spirit:

¹⁰To another the working of miracles, to another prophecie, to another discerning of spirits, to another diuers kindes of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

¹¹But all these worketh that one and the selfe same spirit, diuiding to euery man seuerally as he will.

¹²For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the membrs of that one body, being many, are one bodie: so also is Christ.

¹³For by one spirit are we all baptized into one bodie, whether wee bee Iewes or Gentiles, whether wee bee bond or free: and haue beene all made to drinke into one spirit.¹³

¹⁴For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁶And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁷If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

¹⁸But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

¹⁹And if they were all one member, where were the body?

²⁰But now are they many members, yet but one body.

²¹And the eye cannot say vnto the hand, I haue no need of thee: nor againe, the head to the feete, I haue no neede of you.

²²Nay, much more those members of the bodie, which seeme to bee more feeble, are necessary.

²³And those members of the bodie, which wee thinke to bee lesse honourable, vpon these we bestow more abundant honour, and our vncomely parts haue more abundant comelinesse.²³

²⁴For our comely parts haue no need: but God hath tempered the bodie together, hauing giuen more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

²⁵That there should be no schisme in the body: but that the members should haue the same care one for another.²⁵

²⁶And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it: or one member be honoured, all the members reioyce with it.

²⁷Now yee are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

²⁸And God hath set some in the Church, first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmēts, diuersities of tongues.²⁸

²⁹Are all Apostles? are all Prophets? are all Teachers? are all workers of miracles?²⁹

³⁰Haue all the gifts of healing? doe all speake with tongues? doe all interpret?

³¹But couet earnestly the best gifts: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way.

Original 1611 KJV Sidenote References for 1 Corinthians Chapter 12

³ Or, Anathema.
¹³ Gr. Greeks.
²³ Or, put on.
²⁵ Or, diuision.
²⁸ Or, kinds.
²⁹ Or, powers.

* Some content courtesy of Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

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