2. You remember the lives you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that have no life.
3. So I tell you that no one who is speaking with the help of God’s Spirit says, “Jesus be cursed.” And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” without the help of the Holy Spirit.
4. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit.
5. There are different ways to serve, but we serve the same Lord.
6. And there are different ways that God works in people, but it is the same God who works in all of us to do everything.
7. Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person. The Spirit gives this to each one to help others.
8. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. And the same Spirit gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge.
9. The same Spirit gives faith to one person and to another he gives gifts of healing.
18-19. If each part of the body were the same part, there would be no body. But as it is, God put the parts in the body as he wanted them. He made a place for each one.
20. So there are many parts, but only one body.
21. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you!” And the head cannot say to the foot, “I don’t need you!”
22. No, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are actually very important.