Verse 1
Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,
Referenced Verses
- 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;