1 And now, brothers, I want to write about the special abilities the Holy Spirit gives to each of you, for I don’t want any misunderstanding about them.
2 You will remember that before you became Christians you went around from one idol to another, not one of which could speak a single word.
3 But now you are meeting people who claim to speak messages from the Spirit of God. How can you know whether they are really inspired by God or whether they are fakes? Here is the test: no one speaking by the power of the Spirit of God can curse Jesus, and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” and really mean it, unless the Holy Spirit is helping him.
4 Now God gives us many kinds of special abilities, but it is the same Holy Spirit who is the source of them all.
5 There are different kinds of service to God, but it is the same Lord we are serving.
6 There are many ways in which God works in our lives, but it is the same God who does the work in and through all of us who are his.
7 The Holy Spirit displays God’s power through each of us as a means of helping the entire church.
8 To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; someone else may be especially good at studying and teaching, and this is his gift from the same Spirit.
9 He gives special faith to another, and to someone else the power to heal the sick.
10 He gives power for doing miracles to some, and to others power to prophesy and preach. He gives someone else the power to know whether evil spirits are speaking through those who claim to be giving God’s messages—or whether it is really the Spirit of God who is speaking. Still another person is able to speak in languages he never learned; and others, who do not know the language either, are given power to understand what he is saying.
11 It is the same and only Holy Spirit who gives all these gifts and powers, deciding which each one of us should have.
GOOD NEWS TRANSLATION
1 Now, concerning what you wrote about the gifts from the Holy Spirit. I want you to know the truth about them, my friends.
2 You know that while you were still heathen, you were led astray in many ways to the worship of lifeless idols.
3 I want you to know that no one who is led by God's Spirit can say “A curse on Jesus!” and no one can confess “Jesus is Lord,” without being guided by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit gives them.
5 There are different ways of serving, but the same Lord is served.
6 There are different abilities to perform service, but the same God gives ability to all for their particular service.
7 The Spirit's presence is shown in some way in each person for the good of all.
8 The Spirit gives one person a message full of wisdom, while to another person the same Spirit gives a message full of knowledge.
9 One and the same Spirit gives faith to one person, while to another person he gives the power to heal.
10 The Spirit gives one person the power to work miracles; to another, the gift of speaking God's message; and to yet another, the ability to tell the difference between gifts that come from the Spirit and those that do not. To one person he gives the ability to speak in strange tongues, and to another he gives the ability to explain what is said.
11 But it is one and the same Spirit who does all this; as he wishes, he gives a different gift to each person.
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