1 Corinthians 12:31

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Covet after ye best giftes. Amd yet shewe I vnto you a moare excellent waye.

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  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 Wherfore brethren covet to prophesye and forbyd not to speake with tonges.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 Though I spake with the tonges of me and angels and yet had no love I were eve as soundinge brasse: or as a tynklynge Cymball. 2 And though I coulde prophesy and vnderstode all secretes and all knowledge: yee yf I had all fayth so that I coulde move moutayns oute of ther places and yet had no love I were nothynge. 3 And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede ye poore and though I gave my body even that I burned and yet had no love it profeteth me nothinge. 4 Love suffreth longe and is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth not dealeth 5 not dishonestly seketh not her awne is not provoked to anger thynketh not evyll 6 reioyseth not in iniquite: but reioyseth in ye trueth 7 suffreth all thynge beleveth all thynges hopeth all thynges endureth in all thynges. 8 Though that prophesyinge fayle other tonges shall cease ) or knowledge vanysshe awaye yet love falleth never awaye 9 For oure knowledge is vnparfect and oure prophesyinge is vnperfet. 10 But when yt which is parfect is come then yt which is vnparfet shall be done awaye. 11 When I was a chylde I spake as a chylde I vnderstode as a childe I ymagened as a chylde. But assone as I was a man I put awaye childesshnes. 12 Now we se in a glasse even in a darke speakynge: but then shall we se face to face. Now I knowe vnparfectly: but then shall I knowe even as I am knowen. 13 Now abideth fayth hope and love even these thre: but the chefe of these is love. 1 Labour for love and covet spretuall giftes: and most chefly forto prophesye.
  • Matt 5:6 : 6 Blessed are they which honger and thurst for rightewesnes: for they shalbe filled.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 verely one is nedfull. Mary hath chosen her that good parte which shall not be taken awaye from her.
  • 1 Cor 8:1 : 1 To speake of thinges dedicate vnto ydols we are sure that we all have knowledge. knowledge maketh a man swell: bnt love edifieth.
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Ye I thinke all thynges but losse for that excellet knowledges sake of Christ Iesu my LORde. For whom I have counted all thynge losse and do iudge them but donge that I myght wynne Christ
  • Heb 11:4 : 4 By fayth Abell offered vnto god a more plenteous sacrifice then Cayn: by which he obteyned witnes that he was righteous god testifyinge of his gyftes: by which also he beynge deed yet speaketh.

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    12Eve so ye (for as moche as ye covet spretuall giftes) seke that ye maye have plentye vnto ye edifyinge of the congregacion.

    13Wherfore let him that speaketh with tonges praye that he maye interpret also.

  • 1 Cor 14:1
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    1Labour for love and covet spretuall giftes: and most chefly forto prophesye.

  • 1 Cor 12:29-30
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    29Are all Apostles? Are all Prophetes? Are all teachers? Are all doars of miracles?

    30Have all the gyftes of healinge? Do all speake wt tonges? Do all interprete?

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1In spirituall thinges brethren I wolde not have you ignoraunt.

  • 1 Cor 13:1-4
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    1Though I spake with the tonges of me and angels and yet had no love I were eve as soundinge brasse: or as a tynklynge Cymball.

    2And though I coulde prophesy and vnderstode all secretes and all knowledge: yee yf I had all fayth so that I coulde move moutayns oute of ther places and yet had no love I were nothynge.

    3And though I bestowed all my gooddes to fede ye poore and though I gave my body even that I burned and yet had no love it profeteth me nothinge.

    4Love suffreth longe and is corteous. Love envieth not. Love doth not frowardly swelleth not dealeth

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
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    39Wherfore brethren covet to prophesye and forbyd not to speake with tonges.

    40And let all thinges be done honestly and in order.

  • 1 Cor 13:13
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    13Now abideth fayth hope and love even these thre: but the chefe of these is love.

  • 1 Cor 14:5
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    5I wolde that ye all spake with tonges: but rather that ye prophesied. For greater is he that prophisieth? then he yt speaketh with tonges except he expounde it also that the congregacion maye have edifyinge.

  • Luke 12:31
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    31Wherfore seke ye after the kyngedome of God and all these thinges shalbe ministred vnto you.

  • 1 Cor 12:8-10
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    8To one is geven thorow the spirite the vtteraunce of wisdome? To another is geven the vtteraunce of knowledge by ye same sprete.

    9To another is geuen fayth by ye same sprete. To another ye gyftes of healynge by the same sprete.

    10To another power to do myracles. To another prophesie? To another iudgement of spretes. To another divers tonges. To another the interpretacion of toges.

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    7For I wolde that all men were as I my selfe am: but every man hath his proper gyfte of God one after this maner another after that.

  • 1 Cor 12:4
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    4Ther are diversities of gyftes verely yet but one sprete.

  • Col 3:14
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    14Above all these thinges put on love which is the bonde of parfectnes.

  • Rom 12:9-10
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    9Let love be wt out dissimulacion. Hate that which is evyll and cleave vnto that which is good.

    10Be kynde one to another with brotherly love. In gevynge honoure goo one before another.

  • Phil 1:9-10
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    9And this I praye yt youre love maye increace more and more in knowledge and in all fealinge

    10that ye myght accepte thinges most excellent that ye myght be pure and soche as shuld hurte no manes conscience vntyll the daye of Christ

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8But above all thinges have fervet love amoge you. For love covereth the multitude of synnes.

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10Ye and that thinge verely ye do vnto all the brethre which are thorow oute all Macedonia. We beseche you brethren that ye encreace more and more

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    31Whether therfore ye eate or dryncke or what soever ye do do all to the prayse of God.

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    14Let all youre busynes be done in love.

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    18I thanke my god I speake with toges moare then ye all.

    19Yet had I lever in ye cogregacio to speake five wordes with my mynde to ye informacio of other rather then ten thousande wordes wt the tonge.

    20Brethre be not chyldre in witte. How be it as cocerninge maliciousnes be chyldre: but in witte be perfet.

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    6that we have dyvers gyftes accordynge to the grace that is geven vnto vs: yf eny man have ye gyft of prophesye let him have it that it be agreynge vnto the fayth.

  • 1 Cor 12:23-24
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    23And apo those mebres of yt body which we thinke lest honest put we most honestie on. And oure vngodly parties have most beauty on.

    24For oure honest members nede it not. But God hath so disposed the body ad hath geven most honoure to that parte which laked

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    26How is it then brethre? When ye come to gedder every ma hath his songe hath his doctryne hath his toge hath his revelacio hath his interpretacio. Let all thinges be done vnto edifyinge.

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    7so that ye are behynde in no gyft and wayte for the apperynge of oure LORde Iesus Christ

  • Phil 4:17
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    17not that I desyre gyftes: but I desyre aboudant frute on youre parte.

  • Rom 1:11
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    11For I longe to see you that I myght bestowe amoge you some spirituall gyfte to strength you with all:

  • 2 Cor 8:7-8
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    7Now therfore as ye are ryche in all parties in fayth in worde in knowledge in all fervetnes and in love which ye have to vs: even so se that ye be plenteons in this benivolence.

    8Thys saye I not as commaundynge: but be cause other are so fervent therfore prove I youre love whether it be perfait or no.

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    8Though that prophesyinge fayle other tonges shall cease ) or knowledge vanysshe awaye yet love falleth never awaye

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15These thynges exercyse and geve thy silfe vnto them that it maye be sene how thou profetest in all thinges.

  • 2 Cor 12:15
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    15I will very gladly bestowe and wilbe bestowed for youre soules: though the moare I love you ye lesse I am loved agayne.

  • Heb 6:9
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    9Neverthelesse deare frendes we trust to se better of you and thynges which accompany saluacion though we thus speake.

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7in godlynes brotherly kyndnes in brotherly kyndnes love.

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1Further more we beseche you brethren and exhorte you in the LORde Iesus that ye increace more and more euen as ye have receaved of vs how ye ought to walke and to please god.

  • Phil 3:15
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    15Let vs therfore as many as be perfect be thus wyse minded: and yf ye be other wyse mynded I praye God open even this vnto you.

  • Num 18:29
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    29Of all youre giftes ye shall take out the Lordes heue offerynge: euen the fatt of all their halowed thynges.

  • 2 Cor 9:5
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    5Wherfore I thought it necessary to exhorte the brethren to come before hode vnto you forto prepare youre good blessynge promysed afore that it myght be redy: so yt it be a blessynge and not a defraudynge.