[a]Ye know that ye were [b]Gentiles, and were carried away unto the dumb idols, as ye were led.

[c]Wherefore I declare unto you, that no man (A)speaking by the spirit of God, calleth Jesus (B)[d]execrable: also no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the holy Ghost.

[e]Now there are diversities of gifts, but the [f]same Spirit.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 12:2 He proveth the same by comparing their former state with that wherein they were at this time endued with those excellent gifts.
  2. 1 Corinthians 12:2 As touching God’s service and the Covenant, mere strangers.
  3. 1 Corinthians 12:3 The conclusion: Know you therefore, that you cannot so much as move your lips to honor Christ withall, but by the grace of the holy Ghost.
  4. 1 Corinthians 12:3 Doth curse him, only any means whatsoever diminish his glory.
  5. 1 Corinthians 12:4 In the second place, he layeth another foundation, to wit, that these gifts are divers, as the functions also are divers, and their offices divers, but that one selfsame Spirit Lord and God is the giver of all these gifts, and that to one end, to wit, for the profit of all.
  6. 1 Corinthians 12:4 The Spirit is plainly distinguished from the gifts.

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