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11 And the very same Spirit works all these, giving to each person particular gifts as he so wills.

12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of a body, though they be many, yet are but one body, even so is Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we are all baptized to make one body – whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free – and we have all drunk of 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