Desire for Spiritual gifts

Desire Spiritual Gifts

 

1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Corinthians 12:1-31 ESV / 7 helpful votes

 

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit. Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; ...

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up. ...

1 Corinthians 14:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.

1 Corinthians 14:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.

1 Corinthians 14:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

Acts 19:1-41 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John's baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ...

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 5 helpful votes

 

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

1 Corinthians 14:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 12:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes

 

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.

1 John 5:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.

Ephesians 4:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,

1 Corinthians 14:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.

1 Corinthians 14:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.

1 Corinthians 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 12:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

1 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

Romans 12:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;

Acts 19:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Acts 2:1-4 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Jude 1:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.

Jude 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

Jude 1:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

1 John 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.

1 John 2:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.

1 John 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

2 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,

James 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

Hebrews 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

Titus 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Timothy 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called “knowledge,”

1 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.

1 Timothy 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 1:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction. You know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.

Colossians 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

Colossians 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

Colossians 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And has made known to us your love in the Spirit.

Philippians 1:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,

Ephesians 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Galatians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.

2 Corinthians 7:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God.

2 Corinthians 5:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

1 Corinthians 14:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.

1 Corinthians 14:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.

1 Corinthians 14:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.

1 Corinthians 14:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

1 Corinthians 14:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.

1 Corinthians 14:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret.

1 Corinthians 14:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So with yourselves, if with your tongue you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what is said? For you will be speaking into the air.

1 Corinthians 14:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

If even lifeless instruments, such as the flute or the harp, do not give distinct notes, how will anyone know what is played?

1 Corinthians 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:8-10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 12:28-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 12:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

1 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

To another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

1 Corinthians 12:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

1 Corinthians 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

1 Corinthians 12:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

1 Corinthians 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.

1 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

Romans 15:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Romans 8:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 8:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Romans 8:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?

Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Acts 19:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”

Acts 10:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared,

Acts 10:45 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles.

Acts 10:44-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.

Acts 10:44 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word.

Acts 10:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion of what was known as the Italian Cohort, a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. And now send men to Joppa and bring one Simon who is called Peter. ...

Acts 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.

Acts 2:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

John 13:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

John 13:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

Luke 11:42 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 10:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

Mark 16:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;