1 Corinthians 14:1
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Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues
14 Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts and especially that you may prophesy.(A)
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1 Corinthians 14:39
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39 So, my brothers and sisters, strive to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues,(A)
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Hebrews 12:14
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Warnings against Rejecting God’s Grace
14 Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
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1 Timothy 4:14
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14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.(A)
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1 Corinthians 16:14
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14 Let all that you do be done in love.(A)
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1 Corinthians 12:1
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Spiritual Gifts
12 Now concerning spiritual gifts,[a] brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant.(A)
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- 12.1 Or spiritual persons
1 Corinthians 13:13
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13 And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the greatest of these is love.
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1 Timothy 6:11
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The Good Fight of Faith
11 But as for you, man of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.
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1 Thessalonians 5:20
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20 Do not despise prophecies,
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1 Corinthians 14:37
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37 Anyone who claims to be a prophet or spiritual must acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command[a] of the Lord.(A)
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- 14.37 Other ancient authorities lack a command
1 Corinthians 14:3-5
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3 But those who prophesy speak to other people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.(A) 4 Those who speak in a tongue build up themselves, but those who prophesy build up the church. 5 Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues but even more to prophesy. One who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.(B)
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Proverbs 15:9
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9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but he loves the one who pursues righteousness.(A)
1 Timothy 5:10
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10 she must be well attested for her good works, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints’ feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.(A)
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Ephesians 1:3
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Spiritual Blessings in Christ
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,[a](A)
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- 1.3 Gk heavenlies
1 Corinthians 14:24-25
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24 But if all prophesy, an unbeliever or outsider who enters is reproved by all and called to account by all. 25 After the secrets of the unbeliever’s heart are disclosed, that person will bow down before God and worship, declaring, “God is really among you.”
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1 Corinthians 12:31-13:9
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31 But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.(A)
The Gift of Love
13 If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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 do not have love, I am nothing.(B) 3 If I give away all my possessions and if I hand over my body so that I may boast[a] but do not have love, I gain nothing.(C)
4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant(D) 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;(E) 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.(F) 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.(G)
8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part,
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- 13.3 Other ancient authorities read body to be burned
Proverbs 21:21
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- 21.21 Gk: Heb life and righteousness
3 John 11
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11 Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.(A)
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2 Peter 1:7
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7 and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.
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1 Peter 3:11-13
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11 let them turn away from evil and do good;
let them seek peace and pursue it.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their prayer.
But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
13 Now who will harm you if you are eager to do what is good?
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2 Timothy 2:22
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22 Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.(A)
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Romans 12:6
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6 We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith;(A)
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Isaiah 51:1
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Blessings in Store for God’s People
51 Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness,
you who seek the Lord.
Look to the rock from which you were hewn
and to the quarry from which you were dug.(A)
Numbers 11:25-29
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25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders, and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.(A)
26 Two men remained in the camp, one named Eldad and the other named Medad, and the spirit rested on them; they were among those registered, but they had not gone out to the tent, so they prophesied in the camp.(B) 27 And a young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” 28 And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men,[a] said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”(C) 29 But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? Would that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his spirit on them!”(D)
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- 11.28 Or of Moses from his youth
Romans 9:30
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Israel’s Unbelief
30 What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith,(A)
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