By his Spirit the Lord has given the members of his Body gifts by which they might serve one another in love. But some in the Corinthian church had failed to use their spiritual gifts for the benefit of each other. Indeed, it seems that they had developed an infatuation with some of the gifts that Paul would consider lower priority gifts. Having admonished them in the previous chapter to desire the greater gifts that serve the greatest good for the greatest number of the Body of Christ, he now proposes to show them a better way to live and use the gifts of the Spirit.