Popular Bible Verses from 1 Corinthians 12

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God helps each of us with a gift from his Spirit. He does that so that we can help other people.

All of you together are Christ's body. And each of you is a part of that body.

Then if one part of the body hurts, every other part also hurts. If people praise one part, every part of the body is also happy.

The Spirit helps some people to speak wise messages. Other people can speak messages that help people to know what is true. It is the same Spirit that helps them to do that. The same Spirit causes other people to trust God completely. He gives other people gifts to make sick people well. The same Spirit gives some people power to do miracles. Other people can speak messages from God himself. Some people can recognize whether spirits are good or bad. Some people can speak in different kinds of languages. And other people can explain what those languages mean.

There is only one Holy Spirit. The same Spirit helps people to do all these different things. He decides which gifts he will give to each person.

He has done that to bring all the parts together as one body. All the parts work together to help each other.

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts. But it is the same Spirit who gives them to us. We serve the Lord in different ways, but all of us serve the same Lord. We do different kinds of work to serve God. But it is the same God who helps us all to work in different ways.

Like the parts of a body, God has put people in different places in his church. First, there are apostles. Second, there are people who speak messages from God himself. Third, there are teachers. After that, there are people who do miracles. There are people who have gifts to make sick people well. There are people who help others in special ways. There are people who can lead others. And there are people who can speak different kinds of languages.

A person's body does not have only one part. It has many parts.

No. Even the parts of a body that seem to be weaker are very necessary.

If the whole body was an eye, the body would not hear anything. If the whole body was an ear, it would not recognize different smells. But God has decided where each different part of our body should be. If our body was all the same part, it would not be a proper body.