From: ngninja@baptist.email   
      
   Bible Reading for December 2   
      
   1 Corinthians Chapter 12   
      
   1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.   
      
   2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols,   
   even as ye were led.   
      
   3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit   
   of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the   
   Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.   
      
   4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.   
      
   5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.   
      
   6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which   
   worketh all in all.   
      
   7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit   
   withal.   
      
   8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the   
   word of knowledge by the same Spirit;   
      
   9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing   
   by the same Spirit;   
      
   10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another   
   discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another   
   the interpretation of tongues:   
      
   11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to   
   every man severally as he will.   
      
   12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of   
   that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.   
      
   13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be   
   Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to   
   drink into one Spirit.   
      
   14 For the body is not one member, but many.   
      
   15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the   
   body; is it therefore not of the body?   
      
   16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the   
   body; is it therefore not of the body?   
      
   17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole   
   were hearing, where were the smelling?   
      
   18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it   
   hath pleased him.   
      
   19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?   
      
   20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.   
      
   21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor   
   again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.   
      
   22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more   
   feeble, are necessary:   
      
   23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable,   
   upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have   
   more abundant comeliness.   
      
   24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body   
   together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:   
      
   25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members   
   should have the same care one for another.   
      
   26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one   
   member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.   
      
   27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.   
      
   28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily   
   prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings,   
   helps, governments, diversities of tongues.   
      
   29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers   
   of miracles?   
      
   30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all   
   interpret?   
      
   31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more   
   excellent way.   
      
   1 Corinthians Chapter 13   
      
   1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not   
   charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.   
      
   2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,   
   and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove   
   mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.   
      
   3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give   
   my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.   
      
   4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity   
   vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,   
      
   5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily   
   provoked, thinketh no evil;   
      
   6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;   
      
   7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth   
   all things.   
      
   8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall   
   fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be   
   knowledge, it shall vanish away.   
      
   9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.   
      
   10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part   
   shall be done away.   
      
   11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I   
   thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.   
      
   12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I   
   know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.   
      
   13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest   
   of these is charity.   
      
   1 Corinthians Chapter 14   
      
   1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye   
   may prophesy.   
      
   2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but   
   unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he   
   speaketh mysteries.   
      
   3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and   
   exhortation, and comfort.   
      
   4 He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that   
   prophesieth edifieth the church.   
      
   5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied:   
   for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues,   
   except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.   
      
   6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I   
   profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by   
   knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?   
      
   7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp,   
   except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what   
   is piped or harped?   
      
   8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself   
   to the battle?   
      
   9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be   
   understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak   
   into the air.   
      
   10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none   
   of them is without signification.   
      
   11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him   
   that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian   
   unto me.   
      
   12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that   
   ye may excel to the edifying of the church.   
      
   13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may   
   interpret.   
      
   14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my   
   understanding is unfruitful.   
      
   15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with   
   the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing   
   with the understanding also.   
      
      
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