Each receives his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
but in church I would rather say five words with my own mind for the instruction of other people than ten thousand words in a 'tongue.'
So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.
Your thanksgiving may be all right, but then — the other man is not edified!
Now I would like you all to speak with 'tongues,' but I would prefer you to prophesy. The man who prophesies is higher than the man who speaks with 'tongues' — unless indeed the latter interprets, so that the church may get edification.
As the human body is one and has many members, all the members of the body forming one body for all their number, so is it with Christ.