2. You know the way you lived before you were believers. You let yourselves be influenced and led away to worship idols—things that could not speak.
3. So I want you to understand 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 gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit.
5. There are different ways to serve but the same Lord to serve.
6. And there are different ways that God works through people but the same God. God works in all of us in everything we do.
7. Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, for the common good.
8. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom, and the same Spirit gives another the ability to speak with knowledge.
9. The same Spirit gives faith to one person. And, to another, that one Spirit gives gifts of healing.
18-19. If each part of the body were the same part, there would be no body. But truly God put all the parts, each one of them, in the body as he wanted them.
20. So then 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 the weaker are really necessary.
23. And the parts of the body we think are less deserving are the parts to which we give the most honor. We give special respect to the parts we want to hide.
24. The more respectable parts of our body need no special care. But God put the body together and gave more honor to the parts that need it