1 Corinthians 14:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 14:26 : 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;
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who did give himself for us, that he might ransom us from all lawlessness, and might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works;
  • 1 Cor 12:7 : 7 And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;
  • 1 Cor 12:31 : 31 and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:
  • 1 Cor 14:1 : 1 Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
  • 1 Cor 14:3-4 : 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;

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  • 1 Cor 14:1-6
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    1Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

    2for 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;

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

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

    5and 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.

    6And 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 14:13-20
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    13wherefore he who is speaking in an `unknown' tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

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

    15What 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;

    16since, 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?

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

    18I give thanks to my God -- more than you all with tongues speaking --

    19but 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 1 Cor 14:26-28
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    26What 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;

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

    28and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

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

    40let all things be done decently and in order.

  • 1 Cor 14:9-11
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    9so 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.

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

    11if, then, I do not know the power of the voice, I shall be to him who is speaking a foreigner, and he who is speaking, is to me a foreigner;

  • 1 Cor 12:8-12
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    8for to one through the Spirit hath been given a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit;

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

    10and 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:

    11and all these doth work the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each severally as he intendeth.

    12For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also `is' the Christ,

  • Eph 4:12
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    12unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,

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

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

  • 2 Cor 8:7
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    7but even as in every thing ye do abound, in faith, and word, and knowledge, and all diligence, and in your love to us, that also in this grace ye may abound;

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

  • 1 Thess 4:10
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    10for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

  • 1 Cor 14:23
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    23If, therefore, the whole assembly may come together, to the same place, and all may speak with tongues, and there may come in unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?

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

  • 1 Cor 12:27-28
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    27and ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

    28And some, indeed, did God set in the assembly, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, afterwards powers, afterwards gifts of healings, helpings, governings, divers kinds of tongues;

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

  • 1 Cor 13:1-2
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    1If with the tongues of men and of messengers I speak, and have not love, I have become brass sounding, or a cymbal tinkling;

    2and 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;

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

  • 1 Cor 1:7
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    7so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • Rom 12:4
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    4for as in one body we have many members, and all the members have not the same office,

  • 1 Cor 1:5
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    5that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

  • Jude 1:20
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    20And ye, beloved, on your most holy faith building yourselves up, in the Holy Spirit praying,

  • 1 Tim 4:15
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    15of these things be careful; in these things be, that thy advancement may be manifest in all things;

  • 1 Thess 3:12
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    12and you the Lord cause to increase and to abound in the love to one another, and to all, even as we also to you,