Seek to Excel
1 Corinthians 14:12–14: Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel. Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, …
The Gift of Words
1 Corinthians 14:10–11: There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance. Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a …
Words that Build Up Others
1 Corinthians 14:7–9: Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played? For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle? So likewise you, …
The Power of the Word
1 Corinthians #:#: But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?
Spiritual Speech
1 Corinthians 14:4–5: He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church. I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church …
Words that Build
1 Corinthians 14:2–3: For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries. But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.
Pursue Love
1 Corinthians 14:1: Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
The Greatest is Love
1 Corinthians 13:13: And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Becoming a Man
1 Corinthians 13:11–12: When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know …
Love Waits for the Perfect One
1 Corinthians 13:9–10: For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.