1 Corinthians 12:1-11

International Children’s Bible

Gifts from the Holy Spirit

12 Now, brothers, 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 gifts; but they are all from the same Spirit. ⁵ There are different ways to serve; but all these ways are from the same Lord. ⁶ And there are different ways that God works in people; but all these ways are from the same God. God works in us all in everything we do. ⁷ Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, to help everyone. ⁸ The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. And the same Spirit gives another the ability to speak with knowledge. ⁹ The same Spirit gives faith to one person. And that one Spirit gives another gifts of healing. ¹⁰ The Spirit gives to another person the power to do miracles, to another the ability to prophesy. And he gives to another the ability to know the difference between good and evil spirits. 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 person.