40 Bible Verses about Spiritual Gifts

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not wish you to be ignorant.

Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Hotly pursue this love, yet seek earnestly spiritual gifts, and chiefly that you may prophesy.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;

But we have gifts differing according to the grace which was given to us. He that has the gift of prophecy, let him prophesy according to the proportion of his faith.

Never neglect the gift within you, which was given in fulfilment of prophecy at the time of the laying on of hands by the elders.

Have all gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

For to one man by the Spirit has been given a word of wisdom, to another a word of insight by the same Spirit;

to one man by the same Spirit is given faith, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit;

But the one and the same Spirit gives power to all, distributing his gifts to each as he wills.

So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.

to another the powers which work miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

Desire earnestly the greater gifts. And yet I will go on to show you a still more excellent way.

and varieties of work, and the same God, who works in all.

For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established;

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."

there are various forms of service, and the same Lord;

The spirits of prophets are subject to prophets,

so that you lack no divine gift, while you are waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

But when Simon perceived that, by the laying on of the apostles' hands, the Spirit was given, he offered them money saying,

And to each one of us was grace given according to the measure of the munificence of Christ.

For this reason let me remind you to keep ever blazing that gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

But we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes forth from God, that we may realize the blessings freely given us by God.

So then the gift of tongues is for a sign, not to believers, but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

For no change of purpose can annul God's free gift and call.

If it is the gift of administration, let us give ourselves to our service.

If I have sown for you the seeds of spiritual good, is it a great thing if I reap from you temporal goods?

that in everything you have been enriched in him, in all speech, and in all knowledge

Wherefore I want you to understand that no one who speaks in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit.

Answer me this one question. "When you received the Spirit, was it from doing what the Law commands or from believing the message heard?"

Now you are the body of Christ, and individually members of it.

Of these high themes we speak in words not taught by human philosophy, but by the Spirit; interpreting spiritual things to spiritual men.

God himself corroborating their testimony by signs and wonders and a variety of miraculous powers, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit imparted in accordance with his own will.

The unspiritual man rejects the teachings of God's Spirit; for him it is folly. He cannot understand it, for it is spiritually discerned,