40 Bible Verses about Spiritual Gifts

In the next place, Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant about spiritual gifts.

To each man there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.

Seek this Love earnestly, and strive for spiritual gifts, above all for the gift of preaching.

Gifts differ, but the Spirit is the same;

Since our gifts differ in accordance with the particular charge entrusted to us, if our gift is to preach, let our preaching correspond to our faith;

Do not neglect the divine gift within you, which was given you, amid many a prediction, when the hands of the Officers of the Church were laid on your head.

Can every one have power to cure diseases? can every one speak in 'tongues'? can every one interpret them?

To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit;

To another faith by the same Spirit; to another power to cure diseases by the one Spirit; to another supernatural powers;

All these result from one and the same Spirit, who distributes his gifts to each individually as he wills.

And so with you; since your are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the Church.

To another the gift of preaching; to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration; to another varieties of the gift of 'tongues'; to another the power to interpret 'tongues.'

Strive for the greater gifts. Yet I can still show you a way beyond all comparison the best.

Results differ, yet the God who brings about every result is in every case the same.

For I long to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift and so give you fresh strength--

In the Church God has appointed, first, Apostles, secondly Preachers, thirdly Teachers; then he has given supernatural powers, then power to cure diseases, aptness for helping others, capacity to govern, varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'

Ways of serving differ, yet the Master is the same;

(The spirit that moves the preachers is within the preachers' control;

And thus there is no gift in which you are deficient, while waiting for the Appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Even though I have the gift of preaching, and fathom all hidden truths and all the depths of knowledge; even though I have such faith as might move mountains, yet have not Love, I am nothing!

When Simon saw that it was through the placing of the Apostles' hands on them that the Spirit was given, he brought them a sum of money and said:

Every one of us, however, has been entrusted with some charge, each in accordance with the extent of the gift of the Christ.

And that is my reason for reminding you to stir into flame that gift of God, which is yours through your ordination at my hands.

And as for us, it is not the Spirit of the World that we have received, but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may realize the blessings given to us by him.

Therefore the gift of the 'tongues' is intended as a sign, not for those who believe in Christ, but for those who do not, while the gift of preaching is intended as a sign, not for those who do not believe in Christ, but for those who do.

For God never regrets his gifts or his Call.

If it is to minister to others, let us devote ourselves to our ministry; the teacher to his teaching,

Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?

For through union with him you were enriched in every way-in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the Truth;

Therefore I tell you plainly that no one who speaks under the influence of the Spirit of God says 'JESUS IS ACCURSED,' and that no one can say 'JESUS IS LORD,' except under the influence of the Holy Spirit.

Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you--Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to Law, or of your having listened with faith?

Together you are the Body of Christ, and individually its parts.

And we speak of these gifts, not in language taught by human philosophy, but in language taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things in spiritual words.

while God himself added his testimony to it by signs, and marvels, and many different miracles, as well as by imparting the Holy Spirit as he saw fit.

The merely intellectual man rejects the teaching of the Spirit of God; for to him it is mere folly; he cannot grasp it, because it is to be understood only by spiritual insight.