1 Corinthians 12:31

American Standard Version (1901)

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

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  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. 4 Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil; 6 rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth; 7 beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 8 Love never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall be done away; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall be done away. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known. 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love. 1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
  • Matt 5:6 : 6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,
  • Heb 11:4 : 4 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had witness borne to him that he was righteous, God bearing witness in respect of his gifts: and through it he being dead yet speaketh.

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  • 1 Cor 14:12-13
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    12So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

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    1Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.

  • 1 Cor 12:29-30
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    29Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all [workers of] miracles?

    30have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

  • 1 Cor 13:1-4
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    1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.

    2And if I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

    3And if I bestow all my goods to feed [the poor], and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.

    4Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
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    39Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

    40But let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 13:13
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    13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

  • 1 Cor 14:5
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    5Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

  • Luke 12:31
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    31Yet seek ye his kingdom, and these things shall be added unto you.

  • 1 Cor 12:8-10
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    8For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:

    9to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit;

    10and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: [

  • 1 Cor 7:7
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    7Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.

  • 1 Cor 12:4
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    4Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

  • Col 3:14
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    14and above all these things [put on] love, which is the bond of perfectness.

  • Rom 12:9-10
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    9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

    10In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another; in honor preferring one another;

  • Phil 1:9-10
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    9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

    10so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and void of offence unto the day of Christ;

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8above all things being fervent in your love among yourselves; for love covereth a multitude of sins:

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

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    31Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14Let all that ye do be done in love.

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    18I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:

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    20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

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    6And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith;

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    26What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

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    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, be thus minded: and if in anything ye are otherwise minded, this also shall God reveal unto you:

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    29Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave-offering of Jehovah, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.

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    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.