1 Corinthians 12:11-31
Skip Heitzig
1 Corinthians 12 (NKJV™) | |
11 | But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills. |
12 | For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. |
13 | For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free--and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. |
14 | For in fact the body is not one member but many. |
15 | If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? |
16 | And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? |
17 | If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? |
18 | But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased. |
19 | And if they were all one member, where would the body be? |
20 | But now indeed there are many members, yet 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 | No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary. |
23 | And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor; and our unpresentable parts have greater modesty, |
24 | but our presentable parts have no need. But God composed the body, having given greater honor to that part which lacks it, |
25 | that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another. |
26 | And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. |
27 | Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually. |
28 | And God has appointed these in the church: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. |
29 | Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? |
30 | Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? |
31 | But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way. |
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First Corinthians was written to a church that was being adversely affected by the immoral culture around it. Skip Heitzig relates some teachings that seem very contemporary to us today.
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