To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. - 1 Corinthians 12:7
Jesus died, rose again, and established His Church for the common good.
Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:3
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
- John 15:26
For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21
The Holy Spirit is active today for the common good.
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
- 1 Corinthians 12:7
…All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.
- 1 Corinthians 12:11
We serve Christ’s Body, the Church, for the common good.
12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. 13 For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 12:12-13
…But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together.
- 1 Corinthians 12:24-26
We are motivated by love for the common good.
But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
- 1 Corinthians 12:31
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
- 1 Corinthians 13:1-7