2. But recollect, my brethren, there is nothing in this similar to those possessions by spirits you were once familiar with in the old religions. At one time that worship was part of your life. You were carried away willy-nilly as you were led in the service of these dumb idols.
9. It is the same Spirit, the same Lord, the same God which imparts, ordains, inspires, possesses.
10. The word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, faith, gifts of healing, inspiration and genius, prophecy, spiritual insight and discernment, tongues and the interpretation of tongues —
11. these all proceed in varying degrees displayed by different individuals from the one infinite Spirit. He, that Spirit, is all in all, and one, and all these gifts are constituted in His action and operation.
12. The Christ is as it were one infinite body, wherein all the parts and members are mutually helpful and interdependent.
13. In the unity of the same organism there cannot be inharmonious contradictory parts.
17. If the body were all eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all ear, where would the eyebrow be?
22. but on the contrary those very parts which are held in least honour often have the most important functions,
23-25. and the visible parts of the body which form its beauty are the most dependent on the organs which are not seen and are less esteemed.
26. If one member suffer, all suffer with it, and no one part of the body can be affected, for good or ill, without all the others feeling it.
27. So is it in that infinite spiritual body of the Christ, which we together constitute, of which we are all members.