⁵ Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but servants through whom you believed; and each as the Lord gave to him?

⁴ but in everything commending ourselves, as servants of God, in great endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

⁶ who also made us sufficient as servants of a new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another builds on it. But let each man be careful how he builds on it.

⁷ But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.

¹ Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

²³ Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

⁷ of which I was made a servant, according to the gift of that grace of God which was given me according to the working of his power.

²⁵ of which I was made a servant, according to the stewardship of God which was given me toward you, to fulfill the word of God,

¹⁰ According as each has received a gift, be ministering it among yourselves, as good stewards of the grace of God in its various forms.

⁵ For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake;

³ being revealed that you are a letter of Christ, ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tablets of stone, but in tablets that are hearts of flesh.

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.

² even as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word delivered them to us,

²⁷ John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.

¹⁴ How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

¹⁵ And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!"

³ For I say, through the grace that was given me, to every man who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person a measure of faith.

⁴ For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members don't have the same function,

⁵ so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

⁶ Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.

¹ So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries.

² Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

¹⁷ For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

⁴ Now there are various kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

⁵ There are various kinds of service, and the same Lord.

⁶ There are various kinds of workings, but the same God, who works all things in all.

⁷ But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.

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 to another faith, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

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 But the one and the same Spirit works all of these, distributing to each one separately as he desires.

¹⁵ To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.