1 Corinthians 12:31 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³¹ But desire  the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.

Dugang nga mga bersyon

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one that is better by far and the highest of them all–love].

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

Common English Bible

³¹ Use your ambition to try to get the greater gifts. And I’m going to show you an even better way.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ But be zealous for the better charisms. And I reveal to you a yet more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 12:31 Cross References

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

Luke 10:42

but one thing is necessary.   , Mary has made the right choice,   and it will not be taken away from her.’

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak human or angelic tongues  but do not have love,  I am a noisy gong  or a clanging cymbal.

1 Corinthians 14:1

Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14:39

So then, my brothers and sisters, be eager  to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.

1 Corinthians 8:1

Now about food sacrificed to idols:  We know that ‘we all have knowledge’. Knowledge puffs up,  but love  builds up.

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value  of knowing Christ  Jesus my Lord. Because of him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them as dung, so that I may gain Christ

Hebrews 11:4

By faith Abel offered to God a better sacrifice than Cain did. By faith he was approved as a righteous man, because God approved his gifts, and even though he is dead, he still speaks through his faith.