1 Corinthians 14:12

American Standard Version (1901)

So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 26 What 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.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
  • 1 Cor 12:7 : 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.
  • 1 Cor 12:31 : 31 But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.
  • 1 Cor 14:1 : 1 Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual [gifts], but rather that ye may prophesy.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-4 : 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.

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  • 1 Cor 14:1-6
    6 verses
    83%

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

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

    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.

    6 But 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 14:13-20
    8 verses
    80%

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

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

    15 What 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.

    16 Else 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?

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

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

    19 howbeit 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.

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

  • 1 Cor 12:30-31
    2 verses
    80%

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

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

  • 1 Cor 12:1
    78%

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

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
    3 verses
    77%

    26 What 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.

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

    28 but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
    2 verses
    77%

    39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

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

  • 1 Cor 14:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9 So 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.

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

    11 If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.

  • 1 Cor 12:8-12
    5 verses
    73%

    8 For to one is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit:

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

    10 and 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: [

    11 but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.

    12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body; so also is Christ.

  • Eph 4:12
    73%

    12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:

  • 1 Cor 12:4
    73%

    4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

  • Rom 1:11
    73%

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

  • 2 Cor 8:7
    72%

    7 But as ye abound in everything, [in] faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and [in] all earnestness, and [in] your love to us, [see] that ye abound in this grace also. [

  • Rom 14:19
    72%

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

  • 1 Thess 4:10
    72%

    10 for 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 Cor 14:23
    72%

    23 If therefore the whole church be assembled together and all speak with tongues, and there come in men unlearned or unbelieving, will they not say that ye are mad?

  • 1 Cor 14:31
    71%

    31 For ye all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted;

  • 1 Cor 12:27-28
    2 verses
    71%

    27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof.

    28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, [divers] kinds of tongues.

  • 1 Cor 16:14
    71%

    14 Let all that ye do be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 13:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    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.

  • Rom 12:6
    71%

    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;

  • 1 Cor 1:7
    70%

    7 so that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • Rom 12:4
    70%

    4 For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:

  • 1 Cor 1:5
    70%

    5 that in everything ye were enriched in him, in all utterance and all knowledge;

  • Jude 1:20
    70%

    20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,

  • 1 Tim 4:15
    70%

    15 Be diligent in these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy progress may be manifest unto all.

  • 1 Thess 3:12
    69%

    12 and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also [do] toward you;

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