Глава 12

  • 1. Concernyng spirituall gyftes, brethren, I woulde not haue you ignoraunt.
  • 2. Ye knowe yt ye were gentiles, and caryed away vnto dumbe idols, as ye were led.
  • 3. Wherfore I declare vnto you, that no man speakyng by the spirite of God, defieth Iesus. Also no man can say that Iesus is ye Lord, but by the holy ghost.
  • 4. There are diuersities of gyftes, but the spirite [is] one.
  • 5. And there are differences of administrations, but the Lorde [is] one.
  • 6. And there are diuers maners of operations, but God is one, which worketh all in all.
  • 7. The manifestation of the spirite, is geuen to euery man, to profite withall.
  • 8. For to one is geuen by the spirite, the worde of wisdome, to another the word of knowledge, by the same spirite:
  • 9. To another [is geuen] fayth, by the same spirite: to another the giftes of healyng by the same spirite:
  • 10. To another, power to do miracles, to another, prophesie, to another [iudgement] to discerne spirites, to another, diuers kyndes of tongues, to another, the interpretation of tongues.
  • 11. But these all worketh euen one and the selfe same spirite, deuidyng to euery man a seuerall gyft, as he wyll.
  • 12. For as the body is one, & hath many members, and all the members of one body, though they be many, [yet] are [but] one body: euen so is Christe.
  • 13. For by one spirite, are we all baptized into one body, whether [we be] Iewes or gentiles, whether [we be] bonde or free: and haue all drunke of one spirite.
  • 14. For the body is not one member, but many.
  • 15. If the foote woulde say, because I am not the hande, I am not of the body: is it therfore not of the body?
  • 16. And yf the eare woulde say, because I am not the eye, I am not of the body: is it therfore not of the body?
  • 17. If all the body [were] an eye, where were then the hearyng? If all [were] hearyng, where were the smellyng?
  • 18. But nowe hath God set ye members, euery one seuerally in the body, as it hath pleased hym.
  • 19. For yf they were all one member, where were the body?
  • 20. Nowe are there many members, yet but one body.
  • 21. And the eye can not say vnto ye hande, I haue no neede of thee: Nor, the head agayne to the feete, I haue no neede of you.
  • 22. Yea, rather a great deale, those members of the body which seeme to be more feeble, are necessary:
  • 23. And vpon those members of the body which we thynke least honest, put we more honestie on. And our vncomely partes, haue more comelynesse on.
  • 24. For our comely members neede it not: But God hath tempered the body together, and hath geuen the more honour to that [part] which lacked:
  • 25. Lest there shoulde be any stryfe in the body: but that the members shoulde haue the same care one for another.
  • 26. And yf one member suffer, all suffer with it. If one member be had in honour, all the members reioyce with it.
  • 27. Ye are the body of Christe, and members one of another.
  • 28. And God hath ordayned some in the Churche, first Apostles, secondarely, prophetes, thirdely teachers, then them that do miracles: after that, the giftes of healyng, helpers, gouernours, diuersitie of tongues.
  • 29. Are all, Apostles? are all, prophetes? are all, teachers?
  • 30. Are all, doers of miracles? Haue all the giftes of healyng? Do all speake with tongues? Do all interprete?
  • 31. Couet after the best giftes: And yet shew I vnto you a more excellent way.