1 Corinthians 12
1 In spirituall thinges brethren I wolde not have you ignoraunt.
In the next place, Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about spiritual gifts.
2 Ye knowe that ye were gentyls and went youre wayes vnto domme ydoles even as ye were ledde.
You know that there was a time when you were Gentiles, going astray after idols that could not speak, just as you happened to be led.
3 Wherfore I declare vnto you that no man speakynge in the sprete of god defieth Iesus. Also no man can saye that Iesus is the lorde: but by the holy goost.
Therefore I tell you plainly that no one who speaks under the influence of the Spirit of God says ‘JESUS IS ACCURSED,’ and that no one can say ‘JESUS IS LORD,’ except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.
4 Ther are diversities of gyftes verely yet but one sprete.
Gifts differ, but the Spirit is the same;
5 And ther are differences of administracions and yet but one lorde.
ways of serving differ, yet the Master is the same;
6 And ther are divers maners of operacions and yet but one God which worketh all thinges that are wrought in all creatures.
results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same.
7 The gyftes of ye sprete are geven to every man to proffit ye congregacion.
To each man there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.
8 To one is geven thorow the spirite the vtteraunce of wisdome? To another is geven the vtteraunce of knowledge by ye same sprete.
To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit;
9 To another is geuen fayth by ye same sprete. To another ye gyftes of healynge by the same sprete.
to another faith by the same Spirit; to another power to cure diseases by the one Spirit; to another supernatural powers;
10 To another power to do myracles. To another prophesie? To another iudgement of spretes. To another divers tonges. To another the interpretacion of toges.
to another the gift of preaching; to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration; to another varieties of the gift of ‘tongues’; to another the power to interpret ‘tongues.’
11 And these all worketh eve ye silfe same sprete devydynge to every man severall gyftes even as he will.
All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.
12 For as the body is one and hath many mebres and all the membres of one body though they be many yet are but one body: even so is Christ.
For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;
13 For in one sprete are we all baptysed to make one body whether we be Iewes or getyls whether we be bonde or fre: and have all dronke of one sprete.
for it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free men, and were all imbued with one Spirit.
14 For the body is not one member but many.
The human body, I repeat, consists not of one part, but of many.
15 Yf the fote saye: I am not the honde therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of ye body:
If the foot says ‘Since I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it does not on that account cease to belong to the body.
16 And if ye eare saye I am not the eye: therfore I am not of the body: is he therfore not of the body?
Or if the ear says ‘Since I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,’ it does not on that account cease to belong to the body.
17 If all the body were an eye where were then the eare? If all were hearynge: where were the smellynge?
If all the body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all hearing, where would the sense of smell be?
18 But now hath god disposed the membres every one of them in the body at his awne pleasure.
But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body.
19 If they were all one member: where were the body?
If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be?
20 Now are ther many membres yet but one body.
But in fact, although it has many parts, there is only one body.
21 And the eye can not saye vnto the honde I have no nede of the: nor ye heed also to the fete. I have no nede of you.
The eye cannot say to the hand ‘I do not need you,’ nor, again, the head to the feet ‘I do not need you.’
22 Ye rather a greate deale those mebres of the body which seme to be most feble are most necessary.
No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable;
23 And apo those mebres of yt body which we thinke lest honest put we most honestie on. And oure vngodly parties have most beauty on.
and those parts which we deem less honourable we surround with special honour; and our ungraceful parts receive a special grace which our graceful parts do not require.
24 For oure honest members nede it not. But God hath so disposed the body ad hath geven most honoure to that parte which laked
Yes, God has so constructed the body — by giving a special honour to the part that lacks it —
25 lest there shuld be eny stryfe in the body: but that the members shuld indifferetly care one for another.
As to secure that there should be no disunion in the body, but that the parts should show the same care for one another.
26 And yf one member suffer all suffer with him: yf one member be had in honoure all members be glad also.
If one part suffers, all the others suffer with it, and if one part has honour done it, all the others share its joy.
27 Ye are the body of Christ and members one of another.
Together you are the Body of Christ, and individually its parts.
28 And God hath also ordeyned in the congregacion fyrst the Apostels secodarely prophetes thyrdly teachers then the that do miracles: after that the gyftes of healynge helpers governers diversite of tonges.
In the Church God has appointed, first, Apostles, secondly Preachers, thirdly Teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of ‘tongues.’
29 Are all Apostles? Are all Prophetes? Are all teachers? Are all doars of miracles?
Can every one be an Apostle? can every one be a Preacher? can every one be a Teacher? can every one have supernatural powers?
30 Have all the gyftes of healinge? Do all speake wt tonges? Do all interprete?
Can every one have power to cure diseases? can every one speak in ‘tongues’? can every one interpret them?
31 Covet after ye best giftes. Amd yet shewe I vnto you a moare excellent waye.
Strive for the greater gifts.
