Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

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.

¹² A person has only one body, and the body has many parts. It is the same with Christ.

¹³ The one Spirit baptized us all to make one body. It made no difference whether we were Jews or Greeks, whether we were slaves or free men. We were all given to drink of one Spirit.