MODERN LITERAL VERSION

12:1 Now brethren, I do not wish you* to be ignorant concerning spiritual gifts.
12:2 You* know that when you* were Gentiles you * were led away to those voiceless idols, as you* might be led now.
12:3 Hence I make known to you*, that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, Jesus is accursed, and no one can say, Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.

12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts*, but the same Spirit.
12:5 And there are diversities of services and the same Lord.
12:6 And there are diversities of workings, but it is the same God, who is working all things in all.
12:7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for what is advantageous:
12:8 for* the word of wisdom is given to one through the Spirit, and to another, the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;
12:9 and to another, miraculous faith, in the same Spirit; and to another, gifts* of healing, in the same Spirit;
12:10 and to another, workings of miracles; and to another, prophecy; and to another, the discerning of spirits; to another, varieties of languages; and to another, the translation of foreign languages;
12:11 but the one and the same Spirit is working all these things, sectioning to each one in his own way just-as he wills.

12:12 For* just-as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
12:13 For* also, we were all immersed* into one body, in one Spirit, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free, and all were given to drink into one Spirit.
12:14 For* the body is not one member, but many.
12:15 If the foot says, Because I am not the hand, I am not from the body; by this, is it not from the body?
12:16 And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not from the body; by this, is it not from the body?
12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where is the hearing? If the whole body were hearing, where is the sense of smell?
12:18 But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just-as he willed.
12:19 But now if they were all one member, where is the body?
12:20 But now they are indeed many members, but one body.
12:21 Now the eye cannot say to the hand, I have no need of you; or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you*.
12:22 But much rather, those members of the body that seem to be* weaker are necessary;
12:23 and those parts of the body, which we think to be more dishonored, we place even-more honor upon these, and our indecent parts have even-more decency;
12:24 but our decent parts have no need. But God mixed the body together, giving even-more honor to that part which lacks;
12:25 that* no splits should be in the body, but that* the members should have the same anxiety on behalf of one another.
12:26 And if one member is suffering, all the members are suffering with it. If one member is glorified, all the members are rejoicing with it.
12:27 Now you* are the body of Christ and members individually.
12:28 And God has indeed placed some in the {F} congregation*, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, thereafter miracles, thereafter gifts* of healing, helps, those who pilot others, those with varieties of languages.
12:29 All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they?
12:30 All do not have gifts* of healing, do they? All do not speak with foreign languages, do they? All do not translate, do they?
12:31 But be zealous for the better gifts*. And I show to you* still a surpassingly-better way.
{Footnotes: 1Co 12:28 Or: church/the one true church, Eph 4:1-6; discussed more in the Appendix.}