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1 De spiritualibus autem, nolo vos ignorare fratres.
1 Y ACERCA de los [dones] espirituales, no quiero, hermanos, que ignoréis.
1 Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
2 Scitis quoniam cum gentes essetis, ad simulacra muta prout ducebamini euntes.
2 Sabéis que cuando erais Gentiles, ibais, como erais llevados, á los ídolos mudos.
2 You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.
3 Ideo notum vobis facio, quod nemo in Spiritu Dei loquens, dicit anathema Jesu. Et nemo potest dicere, Dominus Jesus, nisi in Spiritu Sancto.
3 Por tanto os hago saber, que nadie que hable por Espíritu de Dios, llama anatema á Jesús; y nadie puede llamar á Jesús Señor, sino por Espíritu Santo.
3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God’s Spirit says, “Jesus is accursed.” No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” but by the Holy Spirit.
4 Divisiones vero gratiarum sunt, idem autem Spiritus:
4 Empero hay repartimiento de dones; mas el mismo Espíritu [es].
4 Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 et divisiones ministrationum sunt, idem autem Dominus:
5 Y hay repartimiento de ministerios; mas el mismo Señor [es].
5 There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.
6 et divisiones operationum sunt, idem vero Deus qui operatur omnia in omnibus.
6 Y hay repartimiento de operaciones; mas el mismo Dios es el que obra todas las cosas en todos.
6 There are various kinds of workings, but the same God who works all things in all.
7 Unicuique autem datur manifestatio Spiritus ad utilitatem.
7 Empero á cada uno le es dada manifestación del Espíritu para provecho.
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.
8 Alii quidem per Spiritum datur sermo sapientiæ: alii autem sermo scientiæ secundum eumdem Spiritum:
8 Porque á la verdad, á éste es dada por el Espíritu palabra de sabiduría; á otro, palabra de ciencia según el mismo Espíritu;
8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
9 alteri fides in eodem Spiritu: alii gratia sanitatum in uno Spiritu:
9 A otro, fe por el mismo Espíritu; y á otro, dones de sanidades por el mismo Espíritu;
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
10 alii operatio virtutum, alii prophetia, alii discretio spirituum, alii genera linguarum, alii interpretatio sermonum.
10 A otro, operaciones de milagros; y á otro, profecía; y á otro, discreción de espíritus; y á otro, géneros de lenguas; y á otro, interpretación de lenguas.
10 and to another workings of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of languages, and to another the interpretation of languages.
11 Hæc autem omnia operantur unus atque idem Spiritus, dividens singulis prout vult.
11 Mas todas estas cosas obra uno y el mismo Espíritu, repartiendo particularmente á cada uno como quiere.
11 But the one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.
12 Sicut enim corpus unum est, et membra habet multa, omnia autem membra corporis cum sint multa, unum tamen corpus sunt: ita et Christus.
12 Porque de la manera que el cuerpo es uno, y tiene muchos miembros, empero todos los miembros del cuerpo, siendo muchos, son un cuerpo, así también Cristo.
12 For as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.
13 Etenim in uno Spiritu omnes nos in unum corpus baptizati sumus, sive Judæi, sive gentiles, sive servi, sive liberi: et omnes in uno Spiritu potati sumus.
13 Porque por un Espíritu somos todos bautizados en un cuerpo, ora Judíos ó Griegos, ora siervos ó libres; y todos hemos bebido de un mismo Espíritu.
13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.
14 Nam et corpus non est unum membrum, sed multa.
14 Pues ni tampoco el cuerpo es un miembro, sino muchos.
14 For the body is not one member, but many.
15 Si dixerit pes: Quoniam non sum manus, non sum de corpore: num ideo non est de corpore?
15 Si dijere el pie: Porque no soy mano, no soy del cuerpo: ¿por eso no será del cuerpo?
15 If the foot would say, “Because I’m not the hand, I’m not part of the body,” it is not therefore not part of the body.
16 Et si dixerit auris: Quoniam non sum oculus, non sum de corpore: num ideo est de corpore?
16 Y si dijere la oreja: Porque no soy ojo, no soy del cuerpo: ¿por eso no será del cuerpo?
16 If the ear would say, “Because I’m not the eye, I’m not part of the body,” it’s not therefore not part of the body.
17 Si totum corpus oculus: ubi auditus? Si totum auditus: ubi odoratus?
17 Si todo el cuerpo fuese ojo, ¿dónde estaría el oído? Si todo fuese oído, ¿dónde estaría el olfato?
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the smelling be?
18 Nunc autem posuit Deus membra, unumquodque eorum in corpore sicut voluit.
18 Mas ahora Dios ha colocado los miembros cada uno de ellos en el cuerpo, como quiso.
18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body, just as he desired.
19 Quod si essent omnia unum membrum, ubi corpus?
19 Que si todos fueran un miembro, ¿dónde estuviera el cuerpo?
19 If they were all one member, where would the body be?
20 Nunc autem multa quidem membra, unum autem corpus.
20 Mas ahora muchos miembros son á la verdad, empero un cuerpo.
20 But now they are many members, but one body.
21 Non potest autem oculus dicere manui: Opera tua non indigeo: aut iterum caput pedibus: Non estis mihi necessarii.
21 Ni el ojo puede decir á la mano: No te he menester: ni asimismo la cabeza á los pies: No tengo necesidad de vosotros.
21 The eye can’t tell the hand, “I have no need for you,” or again the head to the feet, “I have no need for you.”
22 Sed multo magis quæ videntur membra corporis infirmiora esse, necessariora sunt:
22 Antes, mucho más los miembros del cuerpo que parecen más flacos, son necesarios;
22 No, much rather, those members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary.
23 et quæ putamus ignobiliora membra esse corporis, his honorem abundantiorem circumdamus: et quæ inhonesta sunt nostra, abundantiorem honestatem habent.
23 Y á aquellos del cuerpo que estimamos ser más viles, á éstos vestimos más honrosamente; y los que en nosotros son menos honestos, tienen más compostura.
23 Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant modesty,
24 Honesta autem nostra nullius egent: sed Deus temperavit corpus, ei cui deerat, abundantiorem tribuendo honorem,
24 Porque los que en nosotros son más honestos, no tienen necesidad: mas Dios ordenó el cuerpo, dando más abundante honor al que le faltaba;
24 while our presentable parts have no such need. But God composed the body together, giving more abundant honor to the inferior part,
25 ut non sit schisma in corpore, sed idipsum pro invicem sollicita sint membra.
25 Para que no haya desavenencia en el cuerpo, sino que los miembros todos se interesen los unos por los otros.
25 that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.
26 Et si quid patitur unum membrum, compatiuntur omnia membra: sive gloriatur unum membrum, congaudent omnia membra.
26 Por manera que si un miembro padece, todos los miembros á una se duelen; y si un miembro es honrado, todos los miembros á una se gozan.
26 When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. When one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it.
27 Vos autem estis corpus Christi, et membra de membro.
27 Pues vosotros sois el cuerpo de Cristo, y miembros en parte.
27 Now you are the body of Christ, and members individually.
28 Et quosdam quidem posuit Deus in ecclesia primum apostolos, secundo prophetas, exinde doctores, deinde virtutes, exinde gratias curationum, opitulationes, gubernationes, genera linguarum, interpretationes sermonum.
28 Y á unos puso Dios en la iglesia, primeramente apóstoles, luego profetas, lo tercero doctores; luego facultades; luego dones de sanidades, ayudas, gobernaciones, géneros de lenguas.
28 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
29 Numquid omnes apostoli? numquid omnes prophetæ? numquid omnes doctores?
29 ¿Son todos apóstoles? ¿son todos profetas? ¿todos doctores? ¿todos facultades?
29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?
30 numquid omnes virtutes? numquid omnes gratiam habent curationum? numquid omnes linguis loquuntur? numquid omnes interpretantur?
30 ¿Tienen todos dones de sanidad? ¿hablan todos lenguas? ¿interpretan todos?
30 Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?
31 Æmulamini autem charismata meliora. Et adhuc excellentiorem viam vobis demonstro.
31 Empero procurad los mejores dones: mas aun yo os muestro un camino más excelente.
31 But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
Cross references (30)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 1 Corinthians 12:4–11; Ephesians 4:11; 1 Corinthians 14:1–18; 1 Corinthians 14:37
  2. 2 1 Peter 4:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Psalm 115:5; Galatians 4:8; Ephesians 2:11–12
  3. 3 1 John 4:2–3; Matthew 16:16–17; Romans 10:9; 2 Corinthians 3:5; John 13:13
  4. 4 1 Peter 4:10; 1 Corinthians 12:28; Romans 12:4–6; Hebrews 2:4; 1 Corinthians 12:8–11
  5. 5 Ephesians 4:11–12; Romans 14:8–9; Romans 12:6–8; 1 Corinthians 8:6; Matthew 23:10
  6. 6 1 Corinthians 3:7; John 5:17; 1 Corinthians 12:11; Hebrews 13:21; Ephesians 4:6
  7. 7 1 Peter 4:10–11; Romans 12:6–8; 1 Corinthians 14:19; 1 Corinthians 14:12; 1 Corinthians 14:17
  8. 8 Proverbs 2:6; 1 Corinthians 2:6–10; Ephesians 1:17–18; 2 Corinthians 8:7; Psalm 143:10
  9. 9 James 5:14–15; Ephesians 2:8; 2 Corinthians 4:13; Hebrews 11:33; Matthew 17:19–20
  10. 10 1 Corinthians 14:39; 1 John 4:1; Mark 16:17; 1 Corinthians 12:28–30; Joel 2:28
  11. 11 Hebrews 2:4; 1 Corinthians 12:4; 2 Corinthians 10:13; 1 Corinthians 12:6; Ephesians 4:7
  12. 12 Romans 12:4–5; Colossians 3:15; 1 Corinthians 12:27; Ephesians 4:15–16; Colossians 2:19
  13. 13 Ephesians 4:5; Colossians 3:11; Galatians 3:28; John 7:37–39; Romans 6:3–6
  14. 14 1 Corinthians 12:27–28; 1 Corinthians 12:12; Ephesians 4:25; 1 Corinthians 12:19
  15. 15 Judges 9:8–15; 2 Kings 14:9
  16. 16 Romans 12:3; Philippians 2:3; 1 Corinthians 12:22; Romans 12:10
  17. 17 Psalm 139:13–16; Psalm 94:9; Proverbs 20:12; 1 Corinthians 12:21; 1 Corinthians 12:29
  18. 18 1 Corinthians 12:28; Romans 12:3; 1 Corinthians 12:11; 1 Corinthians 3:5; Luke 12:32
  19. 20 1 Corinthians 12:14; 1 Corinthians 12:12
  20. 21 Nehemiah 4:16–21; Ezra 10:1–5; Job 29:11
  21. 22 Proverbs 14:28; Ecclesiastes 9:14–15; Ecclesiastes 4:9–12; Ecclesiastes 5:9; 2 Corinthians 1:11
  22. 23 Genesis 3:21
  23. 24 Genesis 3:11; Genesis 2:25
  24. 25 2 Corinthians 13:11; 1 Corinthians 1:10–12; John 17:21–26; 2 Corinthians 8:16; 2 Corinthians 7:12
  25. 26 Romans 12:15; Galatians 6:2; Hebrews 13:3; 1 Peter 3:8
  26. 27 Ephesians 4:12; Ephesians 5:30; Romans 12:5; Colossians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 12:12
  27. 28 Ephesians 4:11–13; Romans 12:6–8; 1 Corinthians 12:18; 1 Corinthians 12:7–11; 1 Timothy 5:17
  28. 29 1 Corinthians 12:4–11; 1 Corinthians 12:14–20
  29. 30 1 Corinthians 12:10
  30. 31 1 Corinthians 13:1–14:1; 1 Corinthians 14:39; Philippians 3:8; Matthew 5:6; 1 Corinthians 8:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary 12:1 John Chrysostom, Homilies on First Corinthians (Homily XXIX)

    This whole place is very obscure: but the obscurity is produced by our ignorance of the facts referred to and by their cessation, being such as then used to occur but now no longer take place. And why do they not happen now?

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 12 (1889)

  2. Quotes verse 12:12 Clement of Rome, First Epistle to the Corinthians (Chapters XXXIV–XXXIX)

    Let us take our body for an example. The head is nothing without the feet, and the feet are nothing without the head; yea, the very smallest members of our body are necessary and useful to the whole body.

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  3. Quotes verse 12:4 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book II, Chapters XXVII–XXVIII)

    For although the Spirit of the Saviour that is in Him "searcheth all things, even the deep things of God," yet as to us "there are diversities of gifts, differences of administrations, and diversities of operations;" and we, while upon the earth, as Paul also declares, "know in part, and prophesy in part." Since, therefore, we know but in part, …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  4. Quotes verse 12:22 Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (Book X, Chapters XXIX–XXXI)

    But I am not such a one, "for I am a sinful man." Yet do I also magnify Thy name; and He who hath "overcome the world" maketh intercession to Thee for my sins, accounting me among the "feeble members" of His body, because Thine eyes saw that of him which was imperfect; and in Thy book all shall be …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)

  5. Quotes verse 12:31 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XXXII)

    "But covet earnestly," saith he, "the best gifts: and yet show I unto you a more excellent way." And when he was to declare this "way," he spoke not of raising the dead, not of cleansing of lepers, not of any other such thing; but in place of all these he set charity.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)