6. There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.
7. The Spirit's presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all.
8. The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge.
9. One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal.
10. The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.
11. But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.
12. Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.
13. In the same way, all of us, whether Jews or Gentiles, whether slaves or free, have been baptized into the one body by the same Spirit, and we have all been given the one Spirit to drink.
14. For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts.
15. If the foot were to say, “Because I am not a hand, I don't belong to the body,” that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
16. And if the ear were to say, “Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body,” that would not keep it from being a part of the body.
17. If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell?
18. As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be.
19. There would not be a body if it were all only one part!