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   [30] Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all   
   interpret?   
   [31] But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more   
   excellent way.   
      
   Love   
      
   Yet I show you a more excellent way.   
      
   1 Corinthians 13   
      
   1 (2Co 12:4) If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,   
   and have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.   
   2 (Mt 17:20; 21:21) If I have the gift of prophecy, and understand   
   all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith,   
   so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.   
   3 If I give all my goods to feed the poor,   
   and if I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.   
   4 (Col 3:12; Pr 10:12) Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not;   
   love flaunts not itself and is not puffed up,   
   5 (1Co 10:24; Php 2:21) does not behave itself improperly, seeks not its own,   
   is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;   
   6 (2Jn 1:4; Ro 1:32) rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;   
   7 (1Co 13:4) bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,   
   and endures all things.   
   8 Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they shall fail;   
   if there are tongues, they shall cease; and if there is knowledge,   
   it shall vanish.   
   9 (1Co 8:2; 13:12) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.   
   10 But when that which is perfect comes, then that which is imperfect   
   shall pass away.   
   11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child,   
   and I thought as a child. But when I became a man,   
   I put away childish things.   
   12 (2Co 5:7; 1Jn 3:2) For now we see as through a glass, dimly, but then,   
   face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know,   
   even as I also am known.   
   13 (Gal 5:6; 1Co 16:14; 1Pe 1:21) So now abide faith, hope, and love,   
   these three. But the greatest of these is love.   
      
   [1] Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not   
   charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.   
   [2] And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,   
   and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove   
   mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.   
   [3] And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my   
   body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.   
   [4] Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity   
   vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,   
   [5] Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily   
   provoked, thinketh no evil;   
   [6] Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;   
   [7] Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth   
   all things.   
   [8] Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;   
   whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it   
   shall vanish away.   
   [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.   
   [10] But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part   
   shall be done away.   
   [11] When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I   
   thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.   
   [12] For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I   
   know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.   
   [13] And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of   
   these is charity.   
      
   1 Corinthians 14   
      
   Tongues and Prophecy   
      
   1 (1Co 12:1; 14:39) Follow after love and desire spiritual gifts,   
   but especially that you may prophesy.   
   2 (1Co 13:2; Mk 16:17) For he who speaks in an unknown tongue   
   does not speak to men, but to God. For no one understands him,   
   although in the spirit, he speaks mysteries.   
   3 (Ro 14:19; 1Co 14:12) But he who prophesies speaks to men   
   for their edification and exhortation and comfort.   
   4 (Mk 16:17; 1Co 14:3) He who speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself,   
   but he who prophesies edifies the church.   
   5 (1Co 12:10; Mk 16:17) I desire that you all speak in tongues,   
   but even more that you prophesy. For greater is he who prophesies   
   than he who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets,   
   so that the church may receive edification.   
   6 (Eph 1:17; Ro 6:17) Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues,   
   what shall I profit you, unless I speak to you by revelation or knowledge   
   or prophesying or doctrine?   
   7 Even when things without life give sound, whether flute or harp,   
   how will it be known what is played unless they give a distinction   
   in the sounds?   
   8 (Nu 10:9; Jer 4:19) If the trumpet makes an uncertain sound,   
   who will prepare himself for the battle?   
   9 (1Co 9:26) So also you, unless with the tongue you speak words   
   easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken?   
   For you shall speak into the air.   
   10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world,   
   and none of them is without significance.   
   11 (Ac 28:2) Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the speech,   
   I shall be a barbarian to him who speaks,   
   and he who speaks will be a barbarian to me.   
   12 (1Co 14:26) So, seeing that you are zealous of spiritual gifts,   
   seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.   
   13 Let him who speaks in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.   
   14 (1Co 14:2) For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays,   
   but my understanding is unfruitful.   
   15 (Col 3:16; Ps 47:7) What is it then? I will pray with the spirit,   
   and I will pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit,   
   and I will sing with the understanding.   
   16 (1Ch 16:36; Ps 106:48) Otherwise, when you bless with the spirit,   
   how will he who occupies the place of the unlearned say "Amen"   
   at your giving of thanks, seeing he does not understand what you say?   
   17 (1Co 14:4) For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified.   
   18 I thank my God that I speak in tongues more than you all.   
   19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding,   
   that by my voice I might teach others also,   
   than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.   
   20 (Ro 16:19; Ps 119:99) Brothers, do not be children in your thinking;   
   rather be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.   
   21 (Jn 10:34; Isa 28:11-12) In the law it is written:   
   "With men of other tongues   
   and other lips   
   I will speak to this people;   
   but even then they will not hear Me,"(Isa 28:11-12.)   
   says the Lord.   
   22 (Mk 16:17) So tongues are for a sign, not to believers,   
   but to unbelievers. But prophesying does not serve unbelievers, but believers.   
   23 (Ac 2:13) Therefore if the whole church assembles in one place   
   and all speak with tongues, and those who are unlearned   
   or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you are out of your mind?   
   24 But if all prophesy and there comes in one who does not believe   
   or one unlearned, he is convinced by all and judged by all.   
   25 (Isa 45:14; Zec 8:23) Thus the secrets of his heart are revealed.   
   And so falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God   
   is truly among you.   
      
   1 Corinthians 14   
   [1] Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may   
   prophesy.   
   [2] For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but   
   unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh   
   mysteries.   
   [3] But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and   
   exhortation, and comfort.   
   [4] He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that   
   prophesieth edifieth the church.   
   [5] I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied:   
      
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