1Now concerning[1] spiritual gifts,[2] brothers,[3] I do not want you to be uninformed. (林前14:1)2You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. (诗115:5; 赛46:7; 耶10:5; 哈2:18; 林前6:11; 弗2:11; 帖前1:9; 彼前4:3)3Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. (太16:17; 约15:26; 羅9:3; 羅10:9; 约一4:2)4Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; (羅12:6; 弗4:4; 來2:4)5and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; (羅12:7; 林前12:4; 弗4:11)6and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. (林前12:4)7To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. (羅12:3; 林前14:26; 弗4:7)8For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, (林前1:5; 林前2:6)9to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, (林前12:28; 林前12:30; 林前13:2; 林后4:13)10to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. (可16:17; 林前12:28; 林前12:30; 林前13:2; 林前13:8; 林前14:1; 林前14:26; 林前14:29; 加3:5; 约一4:1)11All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. (林后10:13; 來2:4)
One Body with Many Members
12For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. (林前10:17; 林前12:27)13For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves[4] or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. (约7:37; 羅6:5; 加3:28; 弗2:13; 弗2:18; 西3:11)14For the body does not consist of one member but of many.15If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.16And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.17If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?18But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. (羅12:3; 林前3:5; 林前12:11; 林前12:28)19If all were a single member, where would the body be?20As it is, there are many parts,[5] yet one body.21The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”22On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,23and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty,24which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,25that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.26If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. (羅12:15)27Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. (羅12:5; 弗1:23; 弗4:12; 弗5:30; 西1:24)28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. (徒20:35; 羅12:8; 林前12:9; 林前12:10; 林前12:18; 弗2:20; 弗3:5; 弗4:11; 提前5:17; 來13:7; 來13:17; 來13:24)29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?30Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?31But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way. (林前14:1; 林前14:39)