Letters to the Churches

If we would examine ourselves, we would not come under judgment.

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined, so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

So then, my brothers, when you gather together to eat, wait for one another.

If someone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you meet together it will not result in judgment. As for the other matters, I will instruct you about them when I come.

But, brothers, I do not want you to go on being ignorant about the things of the Spirit.

You know that when you were pagans, no matter how you felt you were being led, you were being led astray to idols, which can’t speak at all.

Therefore, I want to make it clear to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God ever says, “Yeshua is cursed!” and no one can say, “Yeshua is Lord,” except by the Ruach HaKodesh.

Now there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.

Also there are different ways of serving, but it is the same Lord being served.

And there are different modes of working, but it is the same God working them all in everyone.

Moreover, to each person is given the particular manifestation of the Spirit that will be for the common good.

To one, through the Spirit, is given a word of wisdom; to another, a word of knowledge, in accordance with the same Spirit;

to another, faith, by the same Spirit; and to another, gifts of healing, by the one Spirit;

to another, the working of miracles; to another, prophecy; to another, the ability to judge between spirits; to another, the ability to speak in different kinds of tongues; and to yet another, the ability to interpret tongues.

One and the same Spirit is at work in all these things, distributing to each person as he chooses.

For just as the body is one but has many parts; and all the parts of the body, though many, constitute one body; so it is with the Messiah.

For it was by one Spirit that we were all immersed into one body, whether Jews or Gentiles, slaves or free; and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

For indeed the body is not one part but many.

If the foot says, “I’m not a hand, so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body.

And if the ear says, “I’m not an eye, so I’m not part of the body,” that doesn’t make it stop being part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, how could it hear? If it were all hearing, how could it smell?

But as it is, God arranged each of the parts in the body exactly as he wanted them.

Now if they were all just one part, where would the body be?

But as it is, there are indeed many parts, yet just one body.

So the eye cannot say to the hand, “I don’t need you”; or the head to the feet, “I don’t need you.”