11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, (A)who apportions to each one individually (B)as he wills.

One Body with Many Members

12 For just as (C)the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, (D)so it is with Christ. 13 For (E)in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—(F)Jews or Greeks, slaves[a] or free—and (G)all were made to drink of one Spirit.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 12:13 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit,(A) and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

Unity and Diversity in the Body

12 Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body,(B) so it is with Christ.(C) 13 For we were all baptized(D) by[a] one Spirit(E) so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free(F)—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.(G)

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  1. 1 Corinthians 12:13 Or with; or in