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.

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

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 speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.It does not dishonor others, it is not self- seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.For we know in part and we prophesy in part,but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. (niv)

Therefore, my brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. (niv)

What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ (niv)

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. (niv)

By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead. (niv)

Now about food sacrificed to idols: We know that“ We all possess knowledge.” But knowledge puffs up while love builds up. (niv)

but few things are needed— or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (niv)