Book of Common Prayer

12 Now, my Christian brothers, I want you to know something about the gifts given by the Holy Spirit.

² You know that before you believed in God, you were led by other men to believe in idols that could not talk.

³ Therefore, I want you to understand this. No person who has the Spirit of God ever curses Jesus. And no one can say, `Jesus is Lord,' if he is not controlled by the Holy Spirit.

⁴ There are different gifts, but there is only one Spirit.

⁵ There are different kinds of work, but there is only one Lord.

⁶ There are different ways of working, but there is only one God. He works in all people and does it all.

⁷ And the Holy Spirit gives each one a gift so that all people may be helped.

⁸ The Spirit gives one person wise words to say. The same Spirit gives another person words of good understanding.

⁹ To another person the same Spirit gives faith, and to another person he gives the power to heal people.

¹⁰ To another person the Spirit gives the power to do big works. Another can speak words from God. To another person he gives the power to know the difference between spirits. To another person he gives the gift to speak the words of God in other tongues or languages, and to another the meaning of these different tongues.

¹¹ And the same Spirit gives the power for all these things. He gives each person what he wants to give to them.

¹⁸ While Jesus was telling them these things, a ruler came to him. He bowed down in front of Jesus to worship him and said, `My daughter has just died. But if you will come and put your hand on her, she will live.'

¹⁹ Jesus got up and went with the ruler. His disciples went too.

²⁰ A woman had a sickness for twelve years. She was bleeding all the time. She came behind Jesus and touched his clothes.

²¹ She said to herself, `If only I touch his clothes, I will be well.'

²² Jesus turned around. He saw her and said, `Daughter, be glad. You were healed because you believed.' And right away the woman was healed.

²³ When Jesus came to the ruler's house, he saw the music players and people making a noise.

²⁴ He said to them, `Go away. The girl is not dead, but sleeping.' They laughed at him.

²⁵ The people were told to go outside. When they were out, he went in and took the girl's hand. The girl got up.

²⁶ People in all that part of the country heard about it.