1 Corinthians 12

Wycliffe Bible

12 But of spiritual things, brethren, I will not that ye not know [I will not you to unknow].

² For ye know, that when ye were heathen men, how ye were led going to dumb maumets. [Soothly ye know, for when ye were heathen men, as ye were led going to dumb simulacra.]

³ Therefore I make known to you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God, saith parting from Jesus; and no man may say the Lord Jesus [is], but in the Holy Ghost.

⁴ And diverse graces there be, but it is all one Spirit [but the same Spirit is];

⁵ and diverse services there be, but it is all one Lord; [and partings of servings be, but the same Lord is;]

⁶ and diverse workings there be, but it is all one God [and partings of workings be, but the same God is], that worketh all things in all things.

⁷ And to each man the showing of Spirit is given to profit.

⁸ And the word of wisdom is given to one by Spirit [To another forsooth by Spirit the word of wisdom is given]; to another the word of knowing, by the same Spirit;

⁹ faith to another, in the same Spirit; to another, grace of healings^[a], in one Spirit;

¹⁰ to another, the working of works of power; to another, prophecy; to another, very knowing of spirits; to another, kinds of languages; to another, expounding of words. [to another, the working of virtues; to another, prophecy; to another, discretion, or very knowing, of spirits; to another, kinds of tongues, or languages; to another, interpreting, or expounding, of words.]

¹¹ And one and the same Spirit worketh all these things [Forsooth all these things one and the same Spirit worketh], parting to each by themselves as he will.

¹² For as there is one body, and hath many members, and all the members of the body when those be many [when they be many], be one body, so also Christ.

¹³ For in one Spirit all we be baptized into one body, either Jews, either heathen, either servants, either free; and all we be filled with drink in one Spirit. [And soothly in one Spirit all we be baptized into one body, either Jews, or heathen, or servants, or free; and all we have drunk in one Spirit.]

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot shall say, For I am not the hand, I am not of the body; not therefore it is not of the body [not therefore is it not of the body(?)].

¹⁶ And if the ear saith [And if the ear shall say], For I am not the eye, I am not of the body; not therefore it is not of the body [not therefore is it not of the body(?)].

¹⁷ If all the body is the eye [If all the body were the eye], where is [the] hearing? and if all the body is hearing, where is [the] smelling?

¹⁸ But now God hath set members, and each of them in the body, as he would.

¹⁹ And if all were one member, where were the body?

²⁰ But now there be many members, but one body.

²¹ And the eye may not say to the hand [Forsooth the eye shall not be able to say to the hand], I have no need to thy works; or again the head to the feet, Ye be not necessary to me.

²² But much more those that be seen to be the lower members of the body [But much more those that be seen to be more sick, or lower, members of the body], be more needful;

²³ and those that we guess to be the unworthier members of the body, to them we give more honour; and those members that be unseemly, have more seemliness.^[b]

²⁴ For our seemly members have need of none; but God tempered the body, giving more honour to it, to whom it failed, [Forsooth our honest members of none have need; but God tempered the body, giving more worship to it, to whom it failed,]

²⁵ that debate be not in the body, but that the members be busy into the same thing each for other [but that the members be busy into the same thing for each other].

²⁶ And if one member suffereth any thing [And if one member suffer any thing], all members suffer therewith; either if one member joyeth [either if one member glorieth], all members joy together.

²⁷ And ye be the body of Christ, and members of member. [Forsooth ye be the body of Christ, and members of members.]

²⁸ But God set some men in the church, first apostles, the second time prophets [And soothly God put some in the church, first apostles, the second prophets], the third teachers, afterward works of power, afterward graces of healings, helpings, governings, kinds of languages, interpretations of words.

²⁹ Whether all [be] apostles? whether all [be] prophets? Whether all teachers? whether all works of power?

³⁰ whether all have grace of healings? whether all speak with languages? whether all expound [whether all interpret, or expound]?

³¹ But follow ye the better ghostly gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.