4. There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but they are all from the same Spirit.
5. There are different ways to serve, but we serve the same Lord.
6. And there are different ways that God works in people, but it is the same God who works in all of us to do everything.
7. Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person. The Spirit gives this to each one to help others.
8. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak with wisdom. And the same Spirit gives another person the ability to speak with knowledge.
9. The same Spirit gives faith to one person and to another he gives gifts of healing.
10. The Spirit gives to one person the power to do miracles, to another the ability to prophesy, and to another the ability to judge what is from the Spirit and what is not. The Spirit gives one person the ability to speak in different kinds of languages, and to another the ability to interpret those languages.
11. One Spirit, the same Spirit, does all these things. The Spirit decides what to give each one.
12. A person has only one body, but it has many parts. Yes, there are many parts, but all those parts are still just one body. Christ is like that too.
13. Some of us are Jews and some of us are not; some of us are slaves and some of us are free. But we were all baptized to become one body through one Spirit. And we were all given the one Spirit.
14. And a person’s body has more than one part. It has many parts.
15. The foot might say, “I am not a hand, so I don’t belong to the body.” But saying this would not stop the foot from being a part of the body.
16. The ear might say, “I am not an eye, so I don’t belong to the body.” But saying this would not make the ear stop being a part of the body.
17. If the whole body were an eye, it would not be able to hear. If the whole body were an ear, it would not be able to smell anything.
18-19. If each part of the body were the same part, there would be no body. But as it is, God put the parts in the body as he wanted them. He made a place for each one.
20. So there are many parts, but only one body.