1 Corinthians 12:31

World English Bible (2000)

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

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  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.
  • 1 Cor 13:1-14:1 : 1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. 2 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 don't have love, I am nothing. 3 If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, 5 doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; 6 doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; 10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love. 1 Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
  • Matt 5:6 : 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will 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 puffs up, but love builds up.
  • Phil 3:8 : 8 Yes most certainly, 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 count them nothing but refuse, that I may gain Christ
  • Heb 11:4 : 4 By faith, Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he had testimony given to him that he was righteous, God testifying with respect to his gifts; and through it he, being dead, still speaks.

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    12So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

    13Therefore let him who speaks in another language pray that he may interpret.

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    1Follow after love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

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    29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle workers?

    30Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with various languages? Do all interpret?

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    1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don't want you to be ignorant.

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

    2If 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 don't have love, I am nothing.

    3If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.

    4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,

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    39Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don't forbid speaking with other languages.

    40Let all things be done decently and in order.

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    13But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.

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    5Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

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    31But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to 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, by the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, by the same Spirit;

    10and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

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    7Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

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

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    14Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.

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    9Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil. Cling to that which is good.

    10In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

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    9This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

    10so that you may approve the things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ;

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    8And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

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    10for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;

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    31Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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    14Let all that you do be done in love.

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    18I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.

    19However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

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    6Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

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    23Those parts of the body which we think to be less honorable, on those we bestow more abundant honor; and our unpresentable parts have more abundant propriety;

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    26What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

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    17Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

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

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

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    8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

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    15Be diligent in these things. Give yourself wholly to them, that your progress may be revealed to all.

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    15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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    9But, beloved, we are persuaded of better things for you, and things that accompany salvation, even though we speak like this.

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    1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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    15Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

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    29Out of all your gifts you shall offer every wave offering of Yahweh, of all its best, even the holy part of it out of it.'

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    5I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brothers that they would go before to you, and arrange ahead of time the generous gift that you promised before, that the same might be ready as a matter of generosity, and not of greediness.