1 Corinthians 14:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

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  • 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;
  • 1 Cor 14:39 : 39 so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;
  • 1 Cor 16:14 : 14 let all your things be done in love.
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 peace pursue with all, and the separation, apart from which no one shall see the Lord,
  • Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,
  • 1 Thess 5:20 : 20 prophesyings despise not;
  • 1 Tim 4:14 : 14 be not careless of the gift in thee, that was given thee through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the eldership;
  • 1 Tim 5:10 : 10 in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;
  • 1 Tim 6:11 : 11 and thou, O man of God, these things flee, and pursue righteousness, piety, faith, love, endurance, meekness;
  • 2 Tim 2:22 : 22 and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;
  • 1 Cor 12:31-13:9 : 31 and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you: 1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling; 2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing; 3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing. 4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up, 5 doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil, 6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth; 7 all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth. 8 The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless; 9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;
  • 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.
  • 1 Cor 14:3-5 : 3 and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort; 4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify; 5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.
  • 1 Cor 14:24-25 : 24 and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all, 25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.
  • 1 Cor 14:37 : 37 if any one doth think to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge the things that I write to you -- that of the Lord they are commands;
  • Prov 15:9 : 9 An abomination to Jehovah `is' the way of the wicked, And whoso is pursuing righteousness He loveth.
  • Prov 21:21 : 21 Whoso is pursuing righteousness and kindness, Findeth life, righteousness, and honour.
  • Isa 51:1 : 1 Hearken unto Me, ye pursuing righteousness, Seeking Jehovah, Look attentively unto the rock -- ye have been hewn, And unto the hole of the pit -- ye have been digged.
  • 1 Pet 3:11-13 : 11 let him turn aside from evil, and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it; 12 because the eyes of the Lord `are' upon the righteous, and His ears -- to their supplication, and the face of the Lord `is' upon those doing evil;' 13 and who `is' he who will be doing you evil, if of Him who is good ye may become imitators?
  • 2 Pet 1:7 : 7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;
  • 3 John 1:11 : 11 Beloved, be not thou following that which is evil, but that which is good; he who is doing good, of God he is, and he who is doing evil hath not seen God;
  • Num 11:25-29 : 25 and Jehovah cometh down in the cloud, and speaketh unto him, and keepeth back of the Spirit which `is' on him, and putteth on the seventy men of the elders; and it cometh to pass at the resting of the Spirit on them, that they prophesy, and do not cease. 26 And two of the men are left in the camp, the name of the one `is' Eldad, and the name of the second Medad, and the spirit resteth upon them, (and they are among those written, and have not gone out to the tent), and they prophesy in the camp; 27 and the young man runneth, and declareth to Moses, and saith, `Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.' 28 And Joshua son of Nun, minister of Moses, `one' of his young men, answereth and saith, `My lord Moses, restrain them.' 29 And Moses saith to him, `Art thou zealous for me? O that all Jehovah's people were prophets! that Jehovah would put His Spirit upon them!'
  • Rom 9:30 : 30 What, then, shall we say? that nations who are not pursuing righteousness did attain to righteousness, and righteousness that `is' of faith,
  • Rom 12:6 : 6 And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!'
  • Rom 14:19 : 19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

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  • 1 Cor 14:12-17
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    12 so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

    13 wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

    14 for if I pray in an `unknown' tongue, my spirit doth pray, and my understanding is unfruitful.

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

    16 since, if thou mayest bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what thou dost say he hath not known?

    17 for thou, indeed, dost give thanks well, but the other is not built up!

  • 1 Cor 14:39-40
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    39 so that, brethren, earnestly desire to prophesy, and to speak with tongues do not forbid;

    40 let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 14:2-6
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    2 for he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- to men he doth not speak, but to God, for no one doth hearken, and in spirit he doth speak secrets;

    3 and he who is prophesying to men doth speak edification, and exhortation, and comfort;

    4 he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

    5 and I wish you all to speak with tongues, and more that ye may prophecy, for greater is he who is prophesying than he who is speaking with tongues, except one may interpret, that the assembly may receive edification.

    6 And now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either in revelation, or in knowledge, or in prophesying, or in teaching?

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

    31 and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:

  • 1 Cor 12:1
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    1 And concerning the spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant;

  • 1 Cor 13:1-4
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    1 If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

    2 and if I have prophecy, and know all the secrets, and all the knowledge, and if I have all the faith, so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing;

    3 and if I give away to feed others all my goods, and if I give up my body that I may be burned, and have not love, I am profited nothing.

    4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,

  • 1 Cor 14:31-32
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    31 for ye are able, one by one, all to prophesy, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted,

    32 and the spiritual gift of prophets to prophets are subject,

  • 1 Cor 16:14
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    14 let all your things be done in love.

  • 1 Cor 14:24-27
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    24 and if all may prophecy, and any one may come in, an unbeliever or unlearned, he is convicted by all, he is discerned by all,

    25 and so the secrets of his heart become manifest, and so having fallen upon `his' face, he will bow before God, declaring that God really is among you.

    26 What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

    27 if an `unknown' tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;

  • 1 Cor 14:19-20
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    19 but in an assembly I wish to speak five words through my understanding, that others also I may instruct, rather than myriads of words in an `unknown' tongue.

    20 Brethren, become not children in the understanding, but in the evil be ye babes, and in the understanding become ye perfect;

  • 2 Pet 1:7
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    7 and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

  • Rom 14:19
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    19 So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;

  • 1 Cor 12:10
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    10 and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another `divers' kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

  • 1 Cor 13:8-9
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    8 The love doth never fail; and whether `there be' prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

    9 for in part we know, and in part we prophecy;

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

  • 1 Pet 4:8
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    8 and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

  • 1 Cor 13:13
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    13 and now there doth remain faith, hope, love -- these three; and the greatest of these `is' love.

  • 1 Cor 12:4
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    4 And there are diversities of gifts, and the same Spirit;

  • Heb 13:1
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    1 Let brotherly love remain;

  • Rom 12:6
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    6 And having gifts, different according to the grace that was given to us; whether prophecy -- `According to the proportion of faith!'

  • 1 Cor 14:9-10
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    9 so also ye, if through the tongue, speech easily understood ye may not give -- how shall that which is spoken be known? for ye shall be speaking to air.

    10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is unmeaning,

  • 1 Thess 5:20
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    20 prophesyings despise not;

  • 1 Cor 14:22
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    22 so that the tongues are for a sign, not to the believing, but to the unbelieving; and the prophesy `is' not for the unbelieving, but for the believing,

  • Col 3:14
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    14 and above all these things, `have' love, which is a bond of the perfection,

  • 1 Thess 4:9-10
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    9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

    10 for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

  • 1 Pet 1:22
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    22 Your souls having purified in the obedience of the truth through the Spirit to brotherly love unfeigned, out of a pure heart one another love ye earnestly,

  • 1 Thess 4:1
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    1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

  • 1 Cor 8:1
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    1 And concerning the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that we all have knowledge: knowledge puffeth up, but love buildeth up;