⁹ However, as it is written:

¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed^(B) to us by his Spirit.^(C)

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts^(D) except their own spirit^(E) within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² What we have received is not the spirit^(F) of the world,^(G) but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.

¹⁶ Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple^(A) and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?^(B)

³ Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,”^(A) and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,”^(B) except by the Holy Spirit.^(C)

⁴ There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit^(D) distributes them. ⁵ There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. ⁶ There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone^(E) it is the same God^(F) at work.

⁷ Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.^{(G) 8} To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom,^(H) to another a message of knowledge^(I) by means of the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith^(J) by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing^(K) by that one Spirit, ¹⁰ to another miraculous powers,^(L) to another prophecy,^(M) to another distinguishing between spirits,^(N) to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,^[a](O) and to still another the interpretation of tongues.^{[b] 11} All these are the work of one and the same Spirit,^(P) and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

Unity and Diversity in the Body

¹² Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body,^(Q) so it is with Christ.^{(R) 13} For we were all baptized^(S) by^[c] one Spirit^(T) so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free^(U)—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.^(V)

²⁸ And God has placed in the church^(A) first of all apostles,^(B) second prophets,^(C) third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing,^(D) of helping, of guidance,^(E) and of different kinds of tongues.^{(F) 29} Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues^[a]?^(G) Do all interpret? ³¹ Now eagerly desire^(H) the greater gifts.

Love Is Indispensable

And yet I will show you the most excellent way.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,^(A) they will cease; where there are tongues,^(B) they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part^(C) and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes,^(D) what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood^(E) behind me.