1 Corinthians 12

Tree of Life Version

Spiritual Gifts for the Body

12 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant. ² You know that when you were pagans, you were enticed by idols that cannot speak, and you got led astray. ^{[a] 3} Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Ruach Elohim says, “Yeshua be cursed,” and no one can say, “Yeshua is Lord,” except by the Ruach ha-Kodesh.

⁴ Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Ruach. ⁵ There are various kinds of service, but the same Lord. ⁶ There are various kinds of working, but the same God who works all things in all people. ⁷ But to each person is given the manifestation of the Ruach for the benefit of all. ⁸ For to one is given through the Ruach a word of wisdom, to another a word of knowledge according to the same Ruach, ⁹ to another faith by the same Ruach, to another gifts of healings by the one Ruach, ¹⁰ to another workings of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ But one and the same Ruach activates all these things, distributing to each person individually as He wills.

¹² For just as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of the body—though many—are one body, so also is Messiah. ¹³ For in one Ruach we were all immersed into one body—whether Jewish or Greek, slave or free—and all were made to drink of one Ruach.

¹⁴ For the body is not one part, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot says, “Since I’m not a hand, I’m not part of the body,” is it therefore not part of the body? ¹⁶ And if the ear says, “Since I’m not an eye, I’m not part of the body,” is it for this reason any less part of the body? ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? ¹⁸ But now God has placed the parts—each one of them—in the body just as He desired. ¹⁹ If they were all one part, where would the body be? ²⁰ But now there are many parts, yet one body.

²¹ The eye cannot tell the hand, “I don’t need you!” or in turn the head to the feet, “I don’t need you!” ²² On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be less important are indispensable. ²³ Those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe with greater honor; and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty; ²⁴ but our presentable parts have no such need. Rather God assembled the body, giving more honor to those who are lacking, ²⁵ so that there may be no division in the body, but so that the parts may have the same care for one another. ²⁶ If one part suffers, all the parts suffer together. If one part is honored, all the parts rejoice together.

²⁷ Now you are the body of Messiah, and members individually. ²⁸ God has put into His community first emissaries, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then healings, helps, leadership, various kinds of tongues. ²⁹ All are not emissaries, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All do not work miracles, do they? ³⁰ All do not have gifts of healing, do they? All do not speak in tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they? ³¹ But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And still I show you a far better way: