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Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit,(A) and there are varieties of services but the same Lord,(B) and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.(C) To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,(D) to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,(E) 10 to another the working of powerful deeds, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.(F) 11 All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.(G)

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The Coming of the Holy Spirit

When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.(A) And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.(B) Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability.(C)

Now there were devout Jews from every people under heaven living in Jerusalem. And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each.

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