1 Corinthians 14:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Pursue love and strive for the spiritual gifts and especially that you may prophesy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ EAGERLY PURSUE and seek to acquire [this] love [make it your aim, your great quest]; and earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual endowments (gifts), especially that you may prophesy (interpret the divine will and purpose in inspired preaching and teaching).

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Common English Bible

¹ Pursue love, and use your ambition to try to get spiritual gifts but especially so that you might prophesy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Pursue charity. Be zealous for spiritual things, but only so that you may prophesy.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ FOLLOW after charity, be zealous for spiritual gifts; but rather that you may prophesy.

1 Corinthians 14:1 Krydshenvisninger

Proverbs 15:9

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but he loves the one who pursues righteousness.

Proverbs 21:21

Whoever pursues righteousness and kindness will find life and honor.

Isaiah 51:1

Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord. Look to the rock from which you were hewn and to the quarry from which you were dug.

Romans 12:6

We have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us: prophecy, in proportion to faith;

Romans 14:19

Let us then pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

Romans 9:30

What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith,

1 Corinthians 12:1

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be ignorant.

1 Corinthians 12:31

But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now faith, hope, and love remain, these three, and the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:2

And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 14:22

Tongues, then, are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.

1 Corinthians 14:37

Anyone who claims to be a prophet or spiritual must acknowledge that what I am writing to you is a command of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 14:39

So, my brothers and sisters, strive to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues,

1 Corinthians 16:14

Let all that you do be done in love.

Ephesians 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

1 Thessalonians 5:20

Do not despise prophecies,

1 Timothy 4:14

Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders.

1 Timothy 5:10

she must be well attested for her good works, as one who has brought up children, shown hospitality, washed the saints’ feet, helped the afflicted, and devoted herself to doing good in every way.

1 Timothy 6:11

But as for you, man of God, shun all this; pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness.

2 Timothy 2:22

Shun youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

2 Peter 1:7

and godliness with mutual affection, and mutual affection with love.

3 John 1:11

Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but imitate what is good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.

1 Samuel 10:5

After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, at the place where the Philistine garrison is; there, as you come to the town, you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the shrine with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre playing in front of them; they will be in a prophetic frenzy.