So let us try as hard as we can to do the things that make peace. And let us try to do the things that will help each other.
1 Corinthians 14:12 - Easy To Read Version It is the same with you. You want spiritual gifts very much. So try most to have those things that help the church grow stronger. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So it is with yourselves; since you are so eager and ambitious to possess spiritual endowments and manifestations of the [Holy] Spirit, [concentrate on] striving to excel and to abound [in them] in ways that will build up the church. American Standard Version (1901) So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church. Common English Bible The same holds true for you: since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, use your ambition to try to work toward being the best at building up the church. Catholic Public Domain Version So it is with you also. And since you are zealous for what is spiritual, seek the edification of the Church, so that you may abound. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church. |
So let us try as hard as we can to do the things that make peace. And let us try to do the things that will help each other.
But you should truly want to have the greater gifts \{of the Spirit {\cf2\super [92]} \}.
Something from the Spirit can be seen in each person. The Spirit gives this to each person to help other people.
Love is the thing you should try for. And you should truly want to have the spiritual gifts. And the gift you should want most is to be able to prophesy. {\cf2\super [95]}
So the person that has the gift of speaking in a \{different\} language should pray that he can also interpret the things he says.
So, brothers and sisters, what should you do? When you meet together, one person has a song, another person has a teaching, another person has a new truth from God, another person speaks in a \{different\} language, and another person interprets that language. The purpose of all these things should be to help \{the church\} grow strong.
I would like all of you \{to have the gift of\} speaking in \{different\} languages. But more, I want you to prophesy. The person that prophesies is greater than the person that can only speak in \{different\} languages. But the person speaking in \{different\} languages is the same as the person that prophesies if he can also interpret those languages. Then the church can be helped \{by what he says\}.
He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people that belong only to him—people that are always wanting to do good things.