40 Bible Verses about Spiritual Gifts

But I want you to understand about spiritual gifts, brothers.

Each receives his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Make love your aim, and then set your heart on the spiritual gifts ??especially upon prophecy.

There are varieties of talents, but the same Spirit;

Our talents differ with the grace that is given us; if the talent is that of prophecy, let us employ it in proportion to our faith;

You have a gift that came to you transmitted by the prophets, when the presbytery laid their hands upon you; do not neglect that gift.

Are all endowed with the gifts of healing? Are all able to speak in 'tongues'? Are all able to interpret?

One man is granted words of wisdom by the Spirit, another words of knowledge by the same Spirit;

one man in the same Spirit has the gift of faith, another in the one Spirit has gifts of healing;

But all these effects are produced by one and the same Spirit, apportioning them severally to each individual as he pleases.

So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.

one has prophecy, another the gift of distinguishing spirits, another the gift of 'tongues' in their variety, another the gift of interpreting 'tongues.'

Set your hearts on the higher talents. And yet I will go on to show you a still higher path.

varieties of effects, but the same God who effects everything in everyone.

For I do yearn to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift for your strengthening ??12 or, in other words, that I may be encouraged by meeting you, I by your faith and you by mine.

That is to say, God has set people within the church to be first of all apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then workers of miracles, then healers, helpers, administrators, and speakers in 'tongues' of various kinds.

varieties of service, but the same Lord;

Prophets can control their own prophetic spirits,

Thus you lack no spiritual endowment during these days of waiting till our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed;

I may prophesy, fathom all mysteries and secret lore, I may have such absolute faith that I can move hills from their place, but if I have no love, I count for nothing;

Now Simon noticed that the holy Spirit was conferred by the laying on of the apostles' hands; so he brought them money,

But each one of us is granted his own grace, as determined by the full measure of Christ's gift.

Hence I would remind you to rekindle the divine gift which you received when my hands were laid upon you;

Now we have received the Spirit ??not the spirit of the world but the Spirit that comes from God, that we may understand what God bestows upon us.

Thus 'tongues' are intended as a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers; whereas prophesying is meant for believers, not for unbelievers.

For God never goes back upon his gifts and call.

if it is practical service, let us mind our service; the teacher must mind his teaching,

If we sowed you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great matter if we reap your worldly goods?

in him you have received a wealth of all blessing, full power to speak of your faith and full insight into its meaning,

so I tell you now, that no one is speaking in the Spirit of God when he cries, 'Cursed be Jesus,' and that no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except in the holy Spirit.

I simply want to ask you one thing: did you receive the Spirit by doing what the Law commands or by believing the gospel message?

Now you are Christ's Body, and severally members of it.

And this is what we discuss, using language taught by no human wisdom but by the Spirit. We interpret what is spiritual in spiritual language.

while God corroborated their testimony with signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, distributing the holy Spirit as it pleased him.

The unspiritual man rejects these truths of the Spirit of God; to him they are 'sheer folly,' he cannot understand them. And the reason is, that they must be read with the spiritual eye.