9 It is the same Spirit, the same Lord, the same God which imparts, ordains, inspires, possesses.
10 The word of knowledge, the word of wisdom, faith, gifts of healing, inspiration and genius, prophecy, spiritual insight and discernment, tongues and the interpretation of tongues —
11 these all proceed in varying degrees displayed by different individuals from the one infinite Spirit. He, that Spirit, is all in all, and one, and all these gifts are constituted in His action and operation.
12 The Christ is as it were one infinite body, wherein all the parts and members are mutually helpful and interdependent.
13 In the unity of the same organism there cannot be inharmonious contradictory parts.
14-16 Hand cannot say to foot, I have no need of you. Ear and eye are different members and have different functions, but what if the ear said to the eye, “because I am different from you, we belong to different bodies,” would it be true? And so all of us were baptised into one vast body, the infinite Christ, — Jews, Greeks, slaves, and free — and we all drank the wine of the one Spirit. Hence these different gifts, functions and offices which operate in us. This very variety constitutes the essential being of the Spirit, because the Spirit includes all.
17 If the body were all eye, where would the hearing be? If it were all ear, where would the eyebrow be?