Letters to the Churches

For if we would iudge our selues, we should not be iudged.

But when we are iudged, we are chastened of the Lord, because we should not be condemned with the world.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eate, tary one for another.

And if any man be hungry, let him eate at home, that ye come not together vnto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.

Now concerning spirituall giftes, brethren, I would not haue you ignorant.

Ye know that ye were Gentiles, and were caried away vnto the dumme Idoles, as ye were led.

Wherefore, I declare vnto you, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Iesus execrable: also no man can say that Iesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.

Now there are diuersities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are diuersities of administrations, but the same Lord,

And there are diuersities of operations, but God is the same which worketh all in all.

But the manifestation of the Spirit is giuen to euery man, to profite withall.

For to one is giuen by the Spirit the word of wisdome: and to an other the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit:

And to another is giuen faith by the same Spirit: and to another the giftes of healing, by the same Spirit:

And to another the operations of great workes: and to another, prophecie: and to another, the discerning of spirits: and to another, diuersities of tongues: and to another, the interpretation of tongues.

And all these thinges worketh one and the selfe same Spirit, distributing to euery man seuerally as he will.

For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, which is one, though they be many, yet are but one body: euen so is Christ.

For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we bee Iewes, or Grecians, whether we be bonde, or free, and haue bene all made to drinke into one Spirit.

For the body also is not one member, but many.

If the foote would say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

And if the eare would say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body, is it therefore not of the body?

If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smellling?

But nowe hath God disposed the members euery one of them in the bodie at his owne pleasure.

For if they were all one member, where were the body?

But now are there many members, yet but one body.

And the eye cannot say vnto the hand, I haue no neede of thee: nor the head againe to the feete, I haue no neede of you.