recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself. 30 That is why
many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen
asleep. 31 But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged. 32
But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will
not be condemned along with the world. 33 So then, my brethren, when
you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34 If anyone is hungry, let
him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. About
the other things I will give directions when I come.
12
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to
be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, you were led
astray to mute idols, however you may have been moved. 3 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.
4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And
there are varieties of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are varieties of
working, but the same God who works all of them in all men. 7 But to
each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8
To one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the
word of knowledge according to the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the
same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 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. 11 But one and the same Spirit
works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as he
wills.
12 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. 13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one bodyówhether
Jews or Greeks, slaves or freeóand we were all made to drink of one
Spirit. 14 For the body is not made up of one member but of many. 15 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. 16 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. 17 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? 18 But now God has
arranged the members in the body, each one of them, just as he desired.
19 If they were all one member, where would the body be? 20 As it is,
there are many parts, but one body. 21 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." 22 On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be
weaker are indispensable, 23 and those parts of the body which we think
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