40 Bible Verses about Spiritual Gifts

About spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be misinformed.

Each one is given his spiritual illumination for the common good.

You must pursue love, while you are cultivating the spiritual endowments, and especially inspired preaching.

Endowments vary, but the Spirit is the same,

We have gifts that differ with the favor that God has shown us, whether it is that of preaching, differing with the measure of our faith,

Do not neglect the gift you have, that was given you with predictions of your work, when the elders laid their hands upon you.

Is everyone able to cure the sick? Can everyone speak ecstatically? Can everyone explain what it means?

One man receives through the Spirit the power to speak wisely, another, by the same Spirit, receives the power to express knowledge,

another, from his union with the same Spirit receives faith, another, by one and the same Spirit, the ability to cure the sick,

These are all produced by one and the same Spirit, and apportioned to each of us just as the Spirit chooses.

So since you are ambitious for spiritual endowments, you must try to excel in them in ways that will do good to the church.

another, the working of wonders, another, inspiration in preaching, another, the power of distinguishing the true Spirit from false ones, another, various ecstatic utterances, and another, the ability to explain them.

But you must cultivate the higher endowments.

and activities vary, but God who produces them all in us all is the same.

For I long to see you, to convey to you some spiritual gift that will strengthen you;

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as inspired preachers, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then come ability to cure the sick, helpfulness, administration, ecstatic speaking.

and forms of service vary, but it is the same Lord who is served,

for the spirits of prophets will give way to prophets,

and there is no gift that you lack even while you are waiting for our Lord Jesus Christ to reappear,

If I am inspired to preach and know all the secret truths and possess all knowledge, and if I have such perfect faith that I can move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

But when Simon saw that the holy Spirit was imparted through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

But each one of us has been given mercy in Christ's generous measure.

For this reason I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift that you received when I laid my hands upon you.

But the Spirit we have received is not that of the world, but the Spirit that comes from God, which we have to make us realize the blessings God has given us.

So this ecstatic speaking is meant as a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers, but inspired preaching is a sign not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

for God does not change his mind about those to whom he gives his blessings or sends his call.

or of practical service, differing in the field of service, or the teacher who exercises his gift in teaching,

If it was we who sowed the spiritual seed among you, is it too much if we reap material benefits from you?

For you have grown rich in everything through union with him??n power of expression and in capacity for knowledge.

Therefore, I must tell you that no one who is speaking under the influence of the Spirit of God ever says, "Curse Jesus!" and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord!" without being under the influence of the holy Spirit.

This is all I want to ask you: Did you receive the Spirit through doing what the Law commands, or through believing the message you heard?

Now you are Christ's body, and individually parts of it.

These disclosures we impart, not in the set phrases of human philosophy, but in words the Spirit teaches, giving spiritual truth a spiritual form.

while God himself corroborated their testimony with signs, portents, and various wonders, and by impartations of the holy Spirit when he saw fit.

A material man will not accept what the Spirit of God offers. It seems mere folly to him, and he cannot understand it, because it takes spiritual insight to see its true value.