40 Bible Verses about Spiritual Gifts

About spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be without information.

To each of us is given a special spiritual illumination for the common good.

Keep on pursuing love, but still keep cultivating your spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophesying.

There are varieties of gifts, but the Spirit is the same in all;

As we have gifts that differ in accordance with the favor God has shown us, if it is that of preaching, let it be done in proportion to our faith;

Stop neglecting the gift you received, which was given you through prophetic utterance when the elders laid their hands upon you.

Not all are people with power to cure the sick, are they? Not all are ecstatic speakers, are they? Not all can explain ecstatic speaking, can they?

To one, wise speech is given by the Spirit; to another, by the same Spirit, intelligent speech is given;

to another, through union with the same Spirit, faith; to another, by one and the same Spirit, power to cure the sick;

But the one and same Spirit accomplishes all these achievements, and apportions power to each of us as He chooses.

So, as you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, you must keep trying to excel for the upbuilding of the church.

to another, power for working wonders; to another, prophetic insight; to another, the power to discriminate between the true Spirit and false spirits; to another, various ecstatic utterances; and to another, the power to explain them.

But you must earnestly continue to cultivate your higher spiritual gifts. And yet I will show you a way that is better by far:

there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who does all things by putting energy in us all.

For I am longing to see you, to impart to you some spiritual gift, that you may be strengthened;

And God has placed people in the church, first as apostles, second as prophets, third as teachers, then wonder-workers; then people with power to cure the sick, helpers, managers, ecstatic speakers.

there are varieties of service, but the Lord to be served is the same;

for the spirits of prophets yield to prophets;

so that there is no spiritual gift in which you consciously come short, while you are waiting for the unveiling of our Lord Jesus Christ,

If I should have the gift of prophecy, And know all secret truths, and knowledge in its every form, and have such perfect faith that I could move mountains, but have no love, I am nothing.

So when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

But in accordance with the measure of Christ's gift, His favor has been bestowed upon each one of us.

For this reason I now remind you to rekindle and keep burning the fire of the divine gift which came upon you when I laid my hands upon you.

Now we have not received the spirit that belongs to the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may get an insight into the blessings God has graciously given us.

So speaking in ecstasy is meant as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is meant, not for unbelievers but for believers.

for the gracious gifts and call of God are never taken back.

or of practical service, in the field of service; or of a teacher, in the field of teaching;

If we have sown the spiritual seed for you, is it too great for us to reap a material support from you?

because you have in everything been richly blessed through union with Him, with perfect expression and fullness of knowledge.

So I want to inform you that no one speaking under the power of the Spirit of God can say, "Jesus is accursed!" and no one except one under the power of the Holy Spirit can really say, "Jesus is Lord!"

I want to ask you only this one thing: Did you receive the Spirit by doing what the law commands, or by believing the message you heard?

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

These truths we are setting forth, not in words that man's wisdom teaches but in words that the Spirit teaches, in this way fitting spiritual words to spiritual truths.

while God continued to confirm their testimony with signs, marvels, and various sorts of wonder-works, and with gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed in accordance with His will.

An unspiritual man does not accept the things that the Spirit of God teaches, for they are nonsense to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are appreciated by spiritual insight.