1 Corinthians 14:1

Appropriate Use Of Prophecy And Tongues

¹ Pursue love, and strive for spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy. ² For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God, because no one understands, but by the Spirit he speaks mysteries.

Desire Spiritual Gifts

Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:1

Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.

1 Corinthians 14:39

So then, my brothers, desire to prophesy, and do not prevent speaking with tongues.

1 Corinthians 16:14

All your [actions] must be done in love.

Numbers 11:25-29

Then Yahweh went down in the cloud and spoke to him, and he took away the spirit that [was] on him, and he {put it} on the seventy elders. And as soon as the spirit was resting on them they prophesied, but they did not do it again.

Proverbs 15:9

An abomination of Yahweh is the way of the wicked, but he who pursues righteousness he will love.

Proverbs 21:21

He who pursues righteousness and kindness will find life, righteousness, and honor.

Isaiah 51:1

"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, who seek Yahweh. Look to [the] rock [from which] you were hewn, and to [the] excavation of [the] pit [from which] you were quarried.

Romans 9:30

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness--even the righteousness [that is] by faith.

Romans 12:6

but having different gifts according to the grace given to us: if [it is] prophecy, according to the proportion of [his] faith;

Romans 14:19

So then, let us pursue {what promotes peace} and {what edifies one another}.

1 Corinthians 12:31-9

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

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three [things] remain: faith, hope, [and] love. But the greatest of these [is] love.

1 Corinthians 14:3-5

But the one who prophesies speaks to people edification and encouragement and consolation.

1 Corinthians 14:24-25

But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is judged by all,

1 Corinthians 14:37

If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, he should recognize that [the things] which I am writing to you are of the Lord.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:20

Do not despise prophecies,

1 Timothy 4:14

Do not neglect the gift [that is] in you, that was granted to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

1 Timothy 5:10

being well-attested by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality, if she has washed the feet of the saints, if she has helped those who are oppressed, if she has devoted herself to every good work.

1 Timothy 6:11

But you, O man of God, flee from these [things], and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patient endurance, gentleness.

2 Timothy 2:22

But flee from youthful desires, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, [and] peace, in company with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

1 Peter 3:11-13

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

2 Peter 1:7

and with godliness, brotherly love, and with brotherly love, love.

3 John 1:11

Dear friend, do not imitate [what is] evil, but [what is] good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God.