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Desires » What to desire
Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.
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Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it. And God has appointed those in the church to be first of all apostles, second, prophets, third, teachers. then workers of miracles, healers, helpers, administrators, users of various kinds of "tongues." Are all apostles? Are all prophets? teachers? workers of miracles? read more.
Have all gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.
Have all gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.
Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation; since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Grace of God » Growth in
Of this I am fully persuaded, that He who has begun a good work in you will go on completing it until the day of Jesus Christ.
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Night and day I am praying earnestly that I may see you face to face, and may perfect whatever is yet lacking in your faith.
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instead of keeping connection with the Head from the whole body draws nourishment for all its needs by the joints which bind it; and is knit together, and grows with a divine growth.
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But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.
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I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.
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And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight for testing things that differ, so that you may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, being filled with the fruit of righteousness through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God.
I do not say that I have already won, or am already perfect, but I am passing on to lay hold on the prize for which also Christ has laid hold of me. Brothers, I do not regard myself to have yet laid hold of it; but this one thing I do, forgetting what is behind me, but straining every nerve toward that which lies ahead, I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus. read more.
Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;
Let us all then, who are mature Christians, strive for this! God will make this clear to any of you who are striving for other goals;
that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God; that you may be strengthened in every kind of strength by the might of his glory for every kind of patience and fortitude with good cheer.
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Meanwhile, may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all men, even as I do toward you. And so may he establish your hearts unblameable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus, with all his saints.
So let us get beyond the teaching of the elementary doctrines of Christ, and let us be borne along toward what is mature. Let us not be continually laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith in God, of the teaching regarding ablutions and the laying on of hands, of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this we will do, if God permit.
Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort. Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation; since you have tasted that the Lord is gracious.