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11 one and the same Spirit operates all these things, dispersing to each one his own gift as he wills.

12 ¶ For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also the Christ.

13 For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one body, whether we are Jews or Greeks, whether we are slaves or free, and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

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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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Footnotes

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