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1 Corinthians 12:11

The Passion Translation

Remember, it is the same Holy Spirit who distributes, activates, and operates these different gifts as he chooses for each believer.

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All who dwell on earth are regarded as nothing compared to him. He does whatever he pleases with the armies of heaven and with those who dwell on earth. No one can restrain his mighty hand or dare ask him, ‘What are you doing?’

Yes, Father, you’ve chosen this gracious plan to extend your kingdom.

Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Why should my generosity make you jealous of them?’

John answered them, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless God bestows it.

For the Spirit-Wind blows as it chooses. You can hear its sound, but you don’t know where it came from or where it’s going. So it is the same with those who are Spirit-born!”

For just as the Father has power to raise the dead, the Son will also raise the dead and give life to whomever he wants.

God’s marvelous grace imparts to each one of us varying gifts. So if God has given you the grace-gift of prophecy, activate your gift by using the proportion of faith you have to prophesy.

So again we see that it is entirely up to God to show mercy or to harden the hearts of whomever he chooses.

But God has carefully designed each member and placed it in the body to function as he desires.

It is the same Holy Spirit who continues to distribute many different varieties of gifts.

The same God distributes different kinds of miracles that accomplish different results through each believer’s gift and ministry as he energizes and activates them.

May all believers continue to live the wonderful lives God has called them to live, according to what he assigns for each person, for this is what I teach to believers everywhere.

I would wish that all of you could live unmarried, just as I do. Yet I understand that we are all decidedly different, with each having a special grace for one thing or another.

But we are those who choose to limit our boasting to only the measure of the work to which God has appointed us—a measure that, by the way, has reached as far as you.

Through our union with Christ we too have been claimed by God as his own inheritance. Before we were even born, he gave us our destiny; that we would fulfill the plan of God who always accomplishes every purpose and plan in his heart.

And he has generously given each one of us supernatural grace, according to the size of the gift of Christ.

Then God added his witness to theirs. He validated their ministry with signs, astonishing wonders, all kinds of powerful miracles, and by the gifts of the Holy Spirit, which he distributed as he desired.

God was delighted to give us birth by the truth of his infallible Word so that we would fulfill his chosen destiny for us and become the favorite ones out of all his creation!




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