42 Bible Verses about Spiritual Gifts

With regard to spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed.

To each person the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the benefit of all.

Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

Now there are different gifts, but the same Spirit.

And we have different gifts according to the grace given to us. If the gift is prophecy, that individual must use it in proportion to his faith.

Do not neglect the spiritual gift you have, given to you and confirmed by prophetic words when the elders laid hands on you.

Not all have gifts of healing, do they? Not all speak in tongues, do they? Not all interpret, do they?

For one person is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, and another the message of knowledge according to the same Spirit,

to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

It is one and the same Spirit, distributing as he decides to each person, who produces all these things.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.

to another performance of miracles, to another prophecy, and to another discernment of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues.

And there are different ministries, but the same Lord.

Indeed, the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,

and I have filled him with the Spirit of God in skill, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of craftsmanship,

so that you do not lack any spiritual gift as you wait for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And if I have prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money,

But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Because of this I remind you to rekindle God's gift that you possess through the laying on of my hands.

Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.

So then, tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers. Prophecy, however, is not for unbelievers but for believers.

The Lord's spirit will rest on him -- a spirit that gives extraordinary wisdom, a spirit that provides the ability to execute plans, a spirit that produces absolute loyalty to the Lord.

For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.

If it is service, he must serve; if it is teaching, he must teach;

If we sowed spiritual blessings among you, is it too much to reap material things from you?

For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge --

So I want you to understand that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

The only thing I want to learn from you is this: Did you receive the Spirit by doing the works of the law or by believing what you heard?

Now you are Christ's body, and each of you is a member of it.

And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

while God confirmed their witness with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.

The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.