◄ 1 Corinthians 14:12 ►
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Good News Translation
Since you are eager to have the gifts of the Spirit, you must try above everything else to make greater use of those which help to build up the church.

New Revised Standard Version
So with yourselves; since you are eager for spiritual gifts, strive to excel in them for building up the church.

Contemporary English Version
If you really want spiritual gifts, choose the ones that will be most helpful to the church.

New American Bible
So with yourselves: since you strive eagerly for spirits, seek to have an abundance of them for building up the church.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.

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So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.

forasmuch.

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

1 Corinthians 12:7,31 And the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man unto profit. . . .

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

spiritual gifts.

1 Corinthians 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

seek.

1 Corinthians 14:3,4,26 But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and exhortation and comfort. . . .

Context
Prophecy and Tongues
…11If then I know not the power of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak a barbarian: and he that speaketh a barbarian to me. 12So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church. 13And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may interpret.…
Cross References
Romans 14:19
Therefore, let us follow after the things that are of peace and keep the things that are of edification, one towards another.

1 Corinthians 14:3
But he that prophesieth speaketh to men unto edification and exhortation and comfort.

1 Corinthians 14:4
He that speaketh in a tongue edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.

1 Corinthians 14:5
And I would have you all to speak with tongues, but rather to prophesy. For greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues: unless perhaps he interpret, that the church may receive edification.

1 Corinthians 14:13
And therefore he that speaketh by a tongue, let him pray that he may interpret.

1 Corinthians 14:11
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