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  • 1. Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.
  • 2. Yee know that yee were Gentiles, caryed away vnto these dumbe idoles, euen as ye were led.
  • 3. Wherefore 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.
  • 4. Nowe there are diuersities of gifts, but the same spirit.
  • 5. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
  • 6. And there are diuersities of operations, but it is the same God, which worketh all in all.
  • 7. But the manifestation of the spirit, is giuen to euery man to profit withall.
  • 8. For to one is giuen by the spirit, the word of wisedome, to another the word of knowledge, by the same spirit.
  • 9. To another faith, by the same spirit: to another the gifts of healing, by the same spirit:
  • 10. To 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.
  • 11. But all these worketh that one and the selfe same spirit, diuiding to euery man seuerally as he will.
  • 12. For 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.
  • 13. For 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.
  • 14. For the body is not one member, but many.
  • 15. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
  • 16. And if the eare shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therefore not of the body?
  • 17. If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
  • 18. But now hath God set the members, euery one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
  • 19. And if they were all one member, where were the body?
  • 20. But now are they many members, yet but one body.
  • 21. And 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.
  • 22. Nay, much more those members of the bodie, which seeme to bee more feeble, are necessary.
  • 23. And 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.
  • 24. For our comely parts haue no need: but God hath tempered the bodie together, hauing giuen more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
  • 25. That there should be no schisme in the body: but that the members should haue the same care one for another.
  • 26. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it: or one member be honoured, all the members reioyce with it.
  • 27. Now yee are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
  • 28. And God hath set some in the Church, first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helpes in gouernmets, diuersities of tongues.
  • 29. Are all Apostles? are all Prophets? are all Teachers? are all workers of miracles?
  • 30. Haue all the gifts of healing? doe all speake with tongues? doe all interpret?
  • 31. But couet earnestly the best gifts: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way.