English Bible Presentation Sharing - 1-Corinthians Book, chapter 12, verse 37 in Ncv Version

1 Corinthians 12 : 1 (NCV)

Now, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand about spiritual gifts.

1 Corinthians 12 : 2 (NCV)

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.

1 Corinthians 12 : 3 (NCV)

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.

1 Corinthians 12 : 4 (NCV)

There are different kinds of gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12 : 5 (NCV)

There are different ways to serve but the same Lord to serve.

1 Corinthians 12 : 6 (NCV)

And there are different ways that God works through people but the same God. God works in all of us in everything we do.

1 Corinthians 12 : 7 (NCV)

Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person, for the common good.

1 Corinthians 12 : 8 (NCV)

The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom, and the same Spirit gives another the ability to speak with knowledge.

1 Corinthians 12 : 9 (NCV)

The same Spirit gives faith to one person. And, to another, that one Spirit gives gifts of healing.

1 Corinthians 12 : 10 (NCV)

The Spirit gives to another person the power to do miracles, to another the ability to prophesy. And he gives to another the ability to know the difference between good and evil spirits. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak in different kinds of languagesn and to another the ability to interpret those languages.

1 Corinthians 12 : 11 (NCV)

One Spirit, the same Spirit, does all these things, and the Spirit decides what to give each person.

1 Corinthians 12 : 12 (NCV)

A person's body is only one thing, but it has many parts. Though there are many parts to a body, all those parts make only one body. Christ is like that also.

1 Corinthians 12 : 13 (NCV)

Some of us are Jews, and some are Greeks. Some of us are slaves, and some are free. But we were all baptized into one body through one Spirit. And we were all made to share in the one Spirit.

1 Corinthians 12 : 14 (NCV)

The human body has many parts.

1 Corinthians 12 : 15 (NCV)

The foot might say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not part of the body." But saying this would not stop the foot from being a part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12 : 16 (NCV)

The ear might say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not part of the body." But saying this would not stop the ear from being a part of the body.

1 Corinthians 12 : 17 (NCV)

If the whole body were an eye, it would not be able to hear. If the whole body were an ear, it would not be able to smell.