1. Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand about spiritual gifts.
2. You remember the lives you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that have no life.
3. So I tell you that no one who is speaking with the help of God’s Spirit says, “Jesus be cursed.” And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” without the help of the Holy Spirit.
4. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit.
5. There are different ways to serve, but we serve the same Lord.
6. And there are different ways that God works in people, but it is the same God who works in all of us to do everything.
7. Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person. The Spirit gives this to each one to help others.
8. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. And the same Spirit gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge.
9. The same Spirit gives faith to one person and to another he gives gifts of healing.
10. The Spirit gives to one person the power to do miracles, to another the ability to prophesy, and to another the ability to judge what is from the Spirit and what is not. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak in different kinds of languages, and to another the ability to interpret those languages.
11. One Spirit, the same Spirit, does all these things. The Spirit decides what to give each one.
12. A person has only one body, but it has many parts. Yes, there are many parts, but all those parts are still just one body. Christ is like that too.
13. Some of us are Jews and some of us are not; some of us are slaves and some of us are free. But we were all baptized to become one body through one Spirit. And we were all given the one Spirit.
14. And a person’s body has more than one part. It has many parts.