10. Another can work miracles. Another can speak what God has revealed. Another can tell the difference between spirits. Another can speak in different kinds of languages. Another can interpret languages.
11. There is only one Spirit who does all these things by giving what God wants to give to each person.
12. For example, the body is one unit and yet has many parts. As all the parts form one body, so it is with Christ.
13. By one Spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether we are Jewish or Greek, slave or free, God gave all of us one Spirit to drink.
14. As you know, the human body is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
15. Suppose a foot says, “I’m not a hand, so I’m not part of the body!” Would that mean it’s no longer part of the body?
16. Or suppose an ear says, “I’m not an eye, so I’m not a part of the body!” Would that mean it’s no longer part of the body?
17. If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If the whole body were an ear, how could it smell?
18. So God put each and every part of the body together as he wanted it.
19. How could it be a body if it only had one part?
20. So there are many parts but one body.
21. An eye can’t say to a hand, “I don’t need you!” Or again, the head can’t say to the feet, “I don’t need you!”
22. The opposite is true. The parts of the body that we think are weaker are the ones we really need.