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Pursue love; and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
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Now ye are Christ's body, and severally members thereof. And God, indeed, set some in the assembly: first, apostles; second, prophets; third, teachers; after that, miracles; then, gifts of healings, helps, governments, various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? read more.
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and a still more excellent way I show you.
Do all have gifts of healings? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But desire earnestly the greater gifts; and a still more excellent way I show you.
as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation, if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;
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having become persuaded of this very thing, that He Who began in you a good work will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ;
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night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and perfect the deficiencies in your faith?
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and not holding fast the Head from Whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of God.
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But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever.
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We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;
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And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in full knowledge and all discernment; so that ye may approve the things that are excellent; that ye may be pure and without offense to the day of Christ; being filled with the fruit of righteousness, which is through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Not that I already obtained, or have already been made perfect; but I am pressing on, if I may lay hold of that for which I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not account myself to have laid hold of it; but one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forth to the things before. I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. read more.
Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;
Let us, therefore, as many as are perfect, think this: and, if in anything ye think differently, even this God will reveal to you;
to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all power, according to the might of His glory, unto all patience and long-suffering with joy;
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and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, as we also do toward you, to the end that He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all His saints.
Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, of the teaching of immersions, and laying on of hands, of a resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And this will we do, if, indeed, God permit.
Having, therefore, put away all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisy, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born babes, long ye for the spiritual, unadulterated milk, that thereby ye may grow unto salvation, if ye tasted that the Lord is gracious;