Helpful Saints Corpus Reader
1 Corinthians
KJV with Apocrypha
Unverified edition · Chapter 12
Reading language: English · Original language (catalog): Greek
Reading display
Display preferences stay on this browser when storage is available.
Resume in the Library keeps only your last public work, edition and passage on this browser.
Saved Places
Saved only on this browser. Places do not synchronize between devices. Only work, edition and passage identifiers are kept; passage text is not stored.
Remove all Saved Places from this browser? Resume reading and display preferences will stay.
Chapter 12 · All reading sections
Choose an edition
1 Corinthians 12:1
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:2
Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:3
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.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:4
Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:5
And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:6
And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:7
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:8
For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:9
To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:10
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:
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:11
But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:12
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.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:13
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.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:14
For the body is not one member, but many.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:15
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:16
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?
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:17
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:18
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:19
And if they were all one member, where were the body?
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:20
But now are they many members, yet but one body.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:21
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.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:22
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:23
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.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:24
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:25
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:26
And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:27
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:28
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.
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:29
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:30
Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?
Study this passage
1 Corinthians 12:31
But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
Study this passage
Compare this section in another edition
Read the editions separately. Matching section labels do not establish word or phrase alignment.
Only publicly readable editions are offered. An original-language parallel requires an admitted source edition; a retained private witness is not displayed here.
About this edition
Completeness: not verified. Available reading sections are listed below.
Available body coverage · English
16 chapter/reading unit(s) · 437 nonempty passage record(s).
Supported chapters & passages
- Chapter 1 · 31 passage record(s)
- Chapter 2 · 16 passage record(s)
- Chapter 3 · 23 passage record(s)
- Chapter 4 · 21 passage record(s)
- Chapter 5 · 13 passage record(s)
- Chapter 6 · 20 passage record(s)
- Chapter 7 · 40 passage record(s)
- Chapter 8 · 13 passage record(s)
- Chapter 9 · 27 passage record(s)
- Chapter 10 · 33 passage record(s)
- Chapter 11 · 34 passage record(s)
- Chapter 12 · 31 passage record(s)
- Chapter 13 · 13 passage record(s)
- Chapter 14 · 40 passage record(s)
- Chapter 15 · 58 passage record(s)
- Chapter 16 · 24 passage record(s)
Body coverage is separate from textual verification. Counts do not establish complete chapters or textual completeness.
Evidence Intelligence
Know what kind of evidence you are looking at.
Helpful Saints keeps direct biblical text, language evidence, ancient witnesses, historical context, research models, and open questions visibly distinct.Direct Biblical Text
The explicit wording and literary context of canonical Scripture.
Original-Language Evidence
Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, morphology, lemmas, semantic range, and textual comparison.
Ancient Witness
Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, ancient Jewish literature, and early Christian writings—clearly classified.
Historical Context
Geography, material culture, chronology ranges, institutions, customs, and reception history.
Research Model
A configured chronology, theological synthesis, typological pattern, or proposed relationship.
Open Question
Evidence is incomplete, debated, or insufficient for a settled conclusion.