Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Gifts from the Holy Spirit
1 Now, concerning what you
wrote about the gifts from
the Holy Spirit.
1 I want you to know the truth
about them, my brothers.
2 You
know that while you were still heathen,
you were led astray in many
ways to the worship of lifeless idols.
3 I want you to know that no one
who is led by God's Spirit can say
“A curse on Jesus!” and no one can
confess “Jesus is Lord,” unless he is
guided by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of
spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit
gives them.
5 There are different
ways of serving, but the same Lord
is served.
6 There are different abilities
to perform service, but the same
God gives ability to everyone for
their particular service.
7 The Spirit's
presence is shown in some way in
each person for the good of all.
8 The
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Spirit gives one person a message
full of wisdom, while to another person
the same Spirit gives a message
full of knowledge.
9 One and the
same Spirit gives faith to one person,
while to another person he
gives the power to heal.
10 The Spirit
gives one person the power to work
miracles; to another, the gift of
speaking God's message; and to yet
another, the ability to tell the difference
between gifts that come from
the Spirit and those that do not. To
one person he gives the ability to
speak in strange tongues, and to another
he gives the ability to explain
what is said.
11 But it is one and the
same Spirit who does all this; as he
wishes, he gives a different gift to
each person. note
One Body with Many Parts
12 Christ is like a single body,
which has many parts; it is still one
body, even though it is made up of
different parts. note
13 In the same way,
all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles,
whether slaves or free, have been
baptized into the one body by the
same Spirit, and we have all been
given the one Spirit to drink.
14 For the body itself is not made
up of only one part, but of many
parts.
15 If the foot were to say, “Because
I am not a hand, I don't belong
to the body,” that would not keep it
from being a part of the body.
16 And
if the ear were to say, “Because I am
not an eye, I don't belong to the
body,” that would not keep it from
being a part of the body.
17 If the
whole body were just an eye, how
could it hear? And if it were only an
ear, how could it smell?
18 As it
is, however, God put every different
part in the body just as he wanted it
to be.
19 There would not be a
body if it were all only one part!
20 As
it is, there are many parts but one
body.
21 So then, the eye cannot say to
the hand, “I don't need you!” Nor
can the head say to the feet, “Well, I
don't need you!”
22 On the contrary,
we cannot do without the parts of
the body that seem to be weaker;
23 and those parts that we think
aren't worth very much are the ones
which we treat with greater care;
while the parts of the body which
don't look very nice are treated with
special modesty,
24 which the more
beautiful parts do not need. God
himself has put the body together in
such a way as to give greater honor
to those parts that need it.
25 And so
there is no division in the body, but
all its different parts have the same
concern for one another.
26 If one
part of the body suffers, all the other
parts suffer with it; if one part is
praised, all the other parts share its
happiness.
27 All of you are Christ's body, and
each one is a part of it.
28 In the
church God has put all in place: in
the first place apostles, in the second
place prophets, and in the third
place teachers; then those who perform
miracles, followed by those
who are given the power to heal or
to help others or to direct them or to
speak in strange tongues. note
29 They are
not all apostles or prophets or teachers.
Not everyone has the power to
work miracles
30 or to heal diseases
or to speak in strange tongues or to
explain what is said.
31 Set your
hearts, then, on the more important
gifts.
31 Best of all, however, is the following
way.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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