Serve God with Spiritual Gifts

For I say, (A)through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, (B)not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt (C)to each one a measure of faith. For (D)as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so (E)we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

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Humble Service in the Body of Christ

For by the grace given me(A) I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,(B) so in Christ we, though many, form one body,(C) and each member belongs to all the others.

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But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:

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Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.(A)

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21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

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21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”

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22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.

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22 On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,

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25 that there should be no [a]schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 12:25 division

25 so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other.

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16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body,” is it therefore not of the body?

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16 And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” it would not for that reason stop being part of the body.

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18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has [a]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:18 NU omits not

18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility(A) and the worship of angels disqualify you.(B) Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind.

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19 and not holding fast to (A)the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, (B)grows with the increase that is from God.

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19 They have lost connection with the head,(A) from whom the whole body,(B) supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.(C)

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