1 Corinthians 14:1

Pursue love, and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially prophecy. Love is the goal, and prophecy the most useful gift to seek.

Cross-references · 25

• 1 Tim 4:14Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
• 1 Cor 14:39Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.
• 1 Cor 16:14Let all that you do be done in love.
• 1 Cor 12:1Now concerning spiritual things, brothers, I don’t want you to be ignorant.
• Heb 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,
• 1 Th 5:20Don’t despise prophesies.
• 1 Cor 14:3–5But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.
• 1 Cor 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain — these three. The greatest of these is love.
• Prov 15:9The way of the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
• 1 Pet 3:11–13Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.
• 1 Tim 6:11But you, man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance, and gentleness.
• 1 Cor 14:37If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
• Isa 51:1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.
• 1 Cor 12:31But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.
• 1 Cor 14:24–25But if all prophesy, and someone unbelieving or unlearned comes in, he is reproved by all, and he is judged by all.
• 2 Pet 1:7and in godliness brotherly affection; and in brotherly affection, love.
• Eph 1:3Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ;
• Prov 21:21He who follows after righteousness and kindness finds life, righteousness, and honor.
• 1 Tim 5:10being approved by good works, if she has brought up children, if she has been hospitable to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, and if she has diligently followed every good work.
• Num 11:25–29Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
• Rom 12:6Having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, if prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
• 3 Jn 1:11Beloved, don’t imitate that which is evil, but that which is good. He who does good is of God. He who does evil hasn’t seen God.
• 2 Tim 2:22Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
• Rom 9:30What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
• Rom 14:19So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

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