Lesson: The New Testament Church<br>
Reading: Gifts given to the church<br>
Reference: 1 Cor. 12:1–12<br><br>
I Corinthians 12:1: Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.<br>
I Corinthians 12:2: Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.<br>
I Corinthians 12:3: Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.<br>
I Corinthians 12:4: Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.<br>
I Corinthians 12:5: And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.<br>
I Corinthians 12:6: And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.<br>
I Corinthians 12:7: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.<br>
I Corinthians 12:8: For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;<br>
I Corinthians 12:9: To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;<br>
I Corinthians 12:10: To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:<br>
I Corinthians 12:11: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.<br>
I Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.<br>
(KJV)<br>