So you should earnestly desire the most helpful gifts. But now let me show you a way of life that is best of all.

你们要切切地求那更大的恩赐。我现今把最妙的道指示你们。

你们要追求那更大的恩赐。我现今把最妙的道指示你们。

你们要追求那更大的恩赐。我现今把最妙的道指示你们。

你们应该热心追求更大的恩赐。现在，我要将一条奇妙无比的道路指示你们！

你们却要热切地追求那些更大的恩赐。现在我要把更高的道路指示你们。

其实你们要渴慕那些更大的恩赐；而我还要把极其高超的道指示给你们。

你們要切切地求那更大的恩賜。我現今把最妙的道指示你們。

你們要追求那更大的恩賜。我現今把最妙的道指示你們。

你們要追求那更大的恩賜。我現今把最妙的道指示你們。

你們應該熱心追求更大的恩賜。現在，我要將一條奇妙無比的道路指示你們！

你們卻要熱切地追求那些更大的恩賜。現在我要把更高的道路指示你們。

你們卻要切慕那更大的恩賜。我還要把一條極高超的道路指示你們。

其實你們要渴慕那些更大的恩賜；而我還要把極其高超的道指示給你們。

爾曹宜慕恩賜之大者、我且示爾以尤妙之道焉、

爾曹宜慕恩賜之貴者、吾將示爾至妙之道矣、

爾當慕恩賜之至貴者、我將示爾更妙之道矣、

爾等自應志於較大之靈賦；惟吾欲示爾以盡善盡美之道焉。

Now eagerly desire the greater gifts. And yet I will show you the most excellent way.

But above all, you should want the more important gifts. But now I will show you the best way of all.

But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.

But desire the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.

But earnestly desire the greater gifts. And yet, I am going to show you a far better way.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. And yet I show you a more excellent way.

But desire earnestly the greater gifts. And moreover a most excellent way show I unto you.

But desire the greater gifts. And I will show you an even better way.

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

But earnestly desire the best gifts. Moreover, I show a most excellent way to you.

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proudor rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.Three things will last forever— faith, hope, and love— and the greatest of these is love.Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives— especially the ability to prophesy.

So, my dear brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking in tongues.

Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ

God blesses those who hunger and thirst for justice, for they will be satisfied.

It was by faith that Abel brought a more acceptable offering to God than Cain did. Abel’s offering gave evidence that he was a righteous man, and God showed his approval of his gifts. Although Abel is long dead, he still speaks to us by his example of faith.

Now regarding your question about food that has been offered to idols. Yes, we know that“ we all have knowledge” about this issue. But while knowledge makes us feel important, it is love that strengthens the church.

There is only one thing worth being concerned about. Mary has discovered it, and it will not be taken away from her.”