1 Corinthians 12:31
Good News Translation
Set your hearts, then, on the more important gifts. Best of all, however, is the following way.

Contemporary English Version
I want you to desire the best gifts. So I will show you a much better way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a more excellent way.

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But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a more excellent way.

covet.

1 Corinthians 8:1 Now concerning those things that are sacrificed to idols: we know we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up: but charity edifieth.

1 Corinthians 14:1,39 Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy. . . .

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

Luke 10:42 But one thing is necessary. Mary hath chosen the best part, which shall not be taken away from her.

shew.

1 Corinthians 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

*etc:

Philippians 3:8 Furthermore, I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ, my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them but as dung, that I may gain Christ.

Hebrews 11:4 By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.

Context
The Greater Gifts
30Are all workers of miracles? Have all the grace of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? 31But be zealous for the better gifts. And I shew unto you yet a more excellent way.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14:39
Wherefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy: and forbid not to speak with tongues.

Additional Translations
But eagerly desire the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And I show to you now a more surpassing way.

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet show I to you a more excellent way.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts, and yet shew I unto you a way of more surpassing excellence.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And a still more excellent way shew I unto you.

But covet earnestly the best gifts. And yet I show to you a more excellent way.

But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will point out to you a way of life which transcends all others.

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

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