so that you are not lacking in any gift as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Now we have received not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

Those who are unspiritual do not receive the gifts of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to them, and they are unable to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has a particular gift from God, one having one kind and another a different kind.

Spiritual Gifts

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant.

Now there are varieties of gifts but the same Spirit,

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

And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues.

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

But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

The Gift of Love

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.

Gifts of Prophecy and Tongues

Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts and especially that you may prophesy.

So with yourselves: since you are striving after spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for building up the church.

And when I arrive, I will send any whom you approve with letters to take your gift to Jerusalem.