1 Corinthians 14:1

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
  • 1 Cor 16:14 : 14 Let all that ye do be done in love.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
  • Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ:
  • 1 Thess 5:20 : 20 despise not prophesyings;
  • 1 Tim 4:14 : 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
  • 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 well reported of for good works; if she hath brought up children, if she hath used hospitality to strangers, if she hath washed the saints' feet, if she hath relieved the afflicted, if she hath diligently followed every good work.
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 But flee youthful lusts, and follow after righteousness, faith, love, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
  • 1 Cor 12:31-13:9 : 31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you. 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;
  • 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation. 4 He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church. 5 Now 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.
  • 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all; 25 the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
  • Prov 15:9 : 9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
  • Prov 21:21 : 21 He that followeth after righteousness and kindness Findeth life, righteousness, and honor.
  • Isa 51:1 : 1 Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek Jehovah: look unto the rock whence ye were hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye were digged.
  • 1 Pet 3:11-13 : 11 And let him turn away from evil, and do good; Let him seek peace, and pursue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil. 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be zealous of that which is good?
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, imitate not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: he that doeth evil hath not seen God.
  • Num 11:25-29 : 25 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more. 26 But there remained two men in the camp, the name of the one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested upon them; and they were of them that were written, but had not gone out unto the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp. 27 And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. 28 And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. 29 And Moses said unto him, Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all Jehovah's people were prophets, that Jehovah would put his Spirit upon them!
  • Rom 9:30 : 30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:
  • Rom 12:6 : 6 And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of our faith;
  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

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  • 1 Cor 14:12-17
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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.

    13Wherefore let him that speaketh in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

    14For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

    15What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

    16Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?

    17For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.

  • 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 14:2-6
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    2For he that speaketh in a tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God; for no man understandeth; but in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

    3But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.

    4He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

    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.

    6But now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophesying, or of teaching?

  • 1 Cor 12:30-31
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    30have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

    31But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

  • 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 14:31-32
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    31For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;

    32and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets;

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

  • 1 Cor 14:24-27
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    24But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;

    25the secrets of his heart are made manifest; and so he will fall down on his face and worship God, declaring that God is among you indeed.

    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.

    27If any man speaketh in a tongue, [let it be] by two, or at the most three, and [that] in turn; and let one interpret:

  • 1 Cor 14:19-20
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    19howbeit in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

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

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7and in [your] godliness brotherly kindness; and in [your] brotherly kindness love.

  • Rom 14:19
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    19So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    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 13:8-9
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    8Love 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.

    9For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;

  • Rom 1:11
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    11For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established;

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

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

  • Heb 13:1
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    1Let love of the brethren continue.

  • Rom 12:6
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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;

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

    10There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no [kind] is without signification.

  • 1 Thess 5:20
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    20despise not prophesyings;

  • 1 Cor 14:22
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    22Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying [is for a sign], not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.

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

  • 1 Thess 4:9-10
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    9But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

    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;

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22Seeing ye have purified your souls in your obedience to the truth unto unfeigned love of the brethren, love one another from the heart fervently:

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.