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[a]There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;(A) there are different forms of service but the same Lord; there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

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  1. 12:4–6 There are some features common to all charisms, despite their diversity: all are gifts (charismata), grace from outside ourselves; all are forms of service (diakoniai), an expression of their purpose and effect; and all are workings (energēmata), in which God is at work. Paul associates each of these aspects with what later theology will call one of the persons of the Trinity, an early example of “appropriation.”