[12:12] For 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.
[12:13] For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
[12:14] For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
[12:15] If 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.
[12:16] And 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.
[12:17] If 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?
[12:18] But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose.
[12:19] If all were a single member, where would the body be?
[12:20] As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
[12:21] The 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.”
[12:22] On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable,
[12:23] and 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,
[12:24] which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it,
[12:25] that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another.
[12:26] If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
[12:27] Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
[12:28] And 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.
[12:29] Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles?
[12:30] Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?
[12:31] But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.