Parallel Verses
- The Message - Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. Most of all, try to proclaim his truth. If you praise him in the private language of tongues, God understands you but no one else does, for you are sharing intimacies just between you and him. But when you proclaim his truth in everyday speech, you’re letting others in on the truth so that they can grow and be strong and experience his presence with you.
- 新标点和合本 - 你们要追求爱，也要切慕属灵的恩赐，其中更要羡慕的，是作先知讲道（原文作“是说预言”。下同）。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 你们要追求爱，也要切慕属灵的恩赐，尤其是作先知讲道 。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 你们要追求爱，也要切慕属灵的恩赐，尤其是作先知讲道 。
- 当代译本 - 你们要追求爱，也要切慕属灵的恩赐，尤其是做先知讲道的恩赐。
- 圣经新译本 - 你们要追求爱，也要热切地渴慕属灵的恩赐，特别是先知讲道的恩赐。
- 中文标准译本 - 你们要追求爱，也要渴慕属灵的事 ，但更要渴慕做先知传道 。
- 现代标点和合本 - 你们要追求爱，也要切慕属灵的恩赐，其中更要羡慕的是做先知讲道 。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 你们要追求爱，也要切慕属灵的恩赐，其中更要羡慕的，是作先知讲道 。
- New International Version - Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy.
- New International Reader's Version - Follow the way of love. You should also want the gifts the Holy Spirit gives. Most of all, you should want the gift of prophecy.
- English Standard Version - Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
- New Living Translation - Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy.
- Christian Standard Bible - Pursue love and desire spiritual gifts, and especially that you may prophesy.
- New American Standard Bible - Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
- New King James Version - Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
- Amplified Bible - Pursue [this] love [with eagerness, make it your goal], yet earnestly desire and cultivate the spiritual gifts [to be used by believers for the benefit of the church], but especially that you may prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people].
- American Standard Version - Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
- King James Version - Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
- New English Translation - Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.
- World English Bible - Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
- 新標點和合本 - 你們要追求愛，也要切慕屬靈的恩賜，其中更要羨慕的，是作先知講道（原文作：是說預言；下同）。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 你們要追求愛，也要切慕屬靈的恩賜，尤其是作先知講道 。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 你們要追求愛，也要切慕屬靈的恩賜，尤其是作先知講道 。
- 當代譯本 - 你們要追求愛，也要切慕屬靈的恩賜，尤其是作先知講道的恩賜。
- 聖經新譯本 - 你們要追求愛，也要熱切地渴慕屬靈的恩賜，特別是先知講道的恩賜。
- 呂振中譯本 - 你們要追求愛，也要切慕屬靈的事，尤其要 切慕 傳講神言的才能。
- 中文標準譯本 - 你們要追求愛，也要渴慕屬靈的事 ，但更要渴慕做先知傳道 。
- 現代標點和合本 - 你們要追求愛，也要切慕屬靈的恩賜，其中更要羨慕的是做先知講道 。
- 文理和合譯本 - 宜趨愛、切慕神貺、其要者能預言也、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 當求仁、而慕神賜、最要者惟設教、
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾當求愛、且慕神之恩賜、更慕為先知講道、
- 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 爾等當追求愛德、亦當志於靈賦；而靈賦之中、預言尚矣。
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Empéñense en seguir el amor y ambicionen los dones espirituales, sobre todo el de profecía.
- 현대인의 성경 - 여러분은 사랑을 추구하고 영적인 선물을 사모하며 특별히 예언을 하 도록 하십시오.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Следуйте путем любви, стремитесь иметь духовные дары, особенно дар пророчества.
- Восточный перевод - Следуйте путём любви, стремитесь иметь духовные дары, особенно дар пророчества.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Следуйте путём любви, стремитесь иметь духовные дары, особенно дар пророчества.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Следуйте путём любви, стремитесь иметь духовные дары, особенно дар пророчества.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Ainsi, recherchez avant tout l’amour ; aspirez en outre aux manifestations de l’Esprit, et surtout à prophétiser.
- リビングバイブル - 愛を、最高の目標にしなさい。それと共に、聖霊が与えてくださる賜物、特に、神のことばを伝える預言の賜物を求めなさい。
- Nestle Aland 28 - Διώκετε τὴν ἀγάπην, ζηλοῦτε δὲ τὰ πνευματικά, μᾶλλον δὲ ἵνα προφητεύητε.
- unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - διώκετε τὴν ἀγάπην; ζηλοῦτε δὲ τὰ πνευματικά, μᾶλλον δὲ ἵνα προφητεύητε.
- Nova Versão Internacional - Sigam o caminho do amor e busquem com dedicação os dons espirituais, principalmente o dom de profecia.
- Hoffnung für alle - Die Liebe soll also euer höchstes Ziel sein. Strebt aber auch nach den Gaben, die der Geist Gottes gibt; vor allem danach, in Gottes Auftrag prophetisch zu reden.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Anh chị em hãy tìm cầu tình yêu và ao ước các ân tứ Chúa Thánh Linh, nhất là ân truyền giảng lời Chúa.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - จงดำเนินในวิถีแห่งความรักและใฝ่หาของประทานฝ่ายจิตวิญญาณอย่างกระตือรือร้น โดยเฉพาะการเผยพระวจนะ
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - จงมุ่งหาความรัก และมุ่งมั่นในของประทานจากพระวิญญาณ โดยเฉพาะอย่างยิ่งการเผยคำกล่าวของพระเจ้า
Cross Reference
- Romans 14:19 - So let’s agree to use all our energy in getting along with each other. Help others with encouraging words; don’t drag them down by finding fault. You’re certainly not going to permit an argument over what is served or not served at supper to wreck God’s work among you, are you? I said it before and I’ll say it again: All food is good, but it can turn bad if you use it badly, if you use it to trip others up and send them sprawling. When you sit down to a meal, your primary concern should not be to feed your own face but to share the life of Jesus. So be sensitive and courteous to the others who are eating. Don’t eat or say or do things that might interfere with the free exchange of love.
- Romans 12:6 - If you preach, just preach God’s Message, nothing else; if you help, just help, don’t take over; if you teach, stick to your teaching; if you give encouraging guidance, be careful that you don’t get bossy; if you’re put in charge, don’t manipulate; if you’re called to give aid to people in distress, keep your eyes open and be quick to respond; if you work with the disadvantaged, don’t let yourself get irritated with them or depressed by them. Keep a smile on your face. * * *
- Numbers 11:26 - Meanwhile two men, Eldad and Medad, had stayed in the camp. They were listed as leaders but they didn’t leave camp to go to the Tent. Still, the Spirit also rested on them and they prophesied in the camp.
- Numbers 11:27 - A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”
- Numbers 11:28 - Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ right-hand man since his youth, said, “Moses, master! Stop them!”
- Numbers 11:29 - But Moses said, “Are you jealous for me? Would that all God’s people were prophets. Would that God would put his Spirit on all of them.” * * *
- 3 John 1:11 - Friend, don’t go along with evil. Model the good. The person who does good does God’s work. The person who does evil falsifies God, doesn’t know the first thing about God.
- 2 Timothy 2:22 - Run away from childish indulgence. Run after mature righteousness—faith, love, peace—joining those who are in honest and serious prayer before God. Refuse to get involved in inane discussions; they always end up in fights. God’s servant must not be argumentative, but a gentle listener and a teacher who keeps cool, working firmly but patiently with those who refuse to obey. You never know how or when God might sober them up with a change of heart and a turning to the truth, enabling them to escape the Devil’s trap, where they are caught and held captive, forced to run his errands.
- Isaiah 51:1 - “Listen to me, all you who are serious about right living and committed to seeking God. Ponder the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were dug. Yes, ponder Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who bore you. Think of it! One solitary man when I called him, but once I blessed him, he multiplied. Likewise I, God, will comfort Zion, comfort all her mounds of ruins. I’ll transform her dead ground into Eden, her moonscape into the garden of God, A place filled with exuberance and laughter, thankful voices and melodic songs.
- 1 Peter 3:13 - If with heart and soul you’re doing good, do you think you can be stopped? Even if you suffer for it, you’re still better off. Don’t give the opposition a second thought. Through thick and thin, keep your hearts at attention, in adoration before Christ, your Master. Be ready to speak up and tell anyone who asks why you’re living the way you are, and always with the utmost courtesy. Keep a clear conscience before God so that when people throw mud at you, none of it will stick. They’ll end up realizing that they’re the ones who need a bath. It’s better to suffer for doing good, if that’s what God wants, than to be punished for doing bad. That’s what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others’ sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all—was put to death and then made alive—to bring us to God.
- Proverbs 21:21 - Whoever goes hunting for what is right and kind finds life itself—glorious life!
- Ephesians 1:3 - How blessed is God! And what a blessing he is! He’s the Father of our Master, Jesus Christ, and takes us to the high places of blessing in him. Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love. Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son.
- Proverbs 15:9 - A life frittered away disgusts God; he loves those who run straight for the finish line.
- 1 Corinthians 14:4 - The one who prays using a private “prayer language” certainly gets a lot out of it, but proclaiming God’s truth to the church in its common language brings the whole church into growth and strength. I want all of you to develop intimacies with God in prayer, but please don’t stop with that. Go on and proclaim his clear truth to others. It’s more important that everyone have access to the knowledge and love of God in language everyone understands than that you go off and cultivate God’s presence in a mysterious prayer language—unless, of course, there is someone who can interpret what you are saying for the benefit of all.
- 1 Corinthians 13:13 - But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
- 1 Corinthians 14:37 - If any one of you thinks God has something for you to say or has inspired you to do something, pay close attention to what I have written. This is the way the Master wants it. If you won’t play by these rules, God can’t use you. Sorry.
- 1 Timothy 6:11 - But you, Timothy, man of God: Run for your life from all this. Pursue a righteous life—a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced in the presence of so many witnesses.
- Hebrews 12:14 - Work at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you’ll never get so much as a glimpse of God. Make sure no one gets left out of God’s generosity. Keep a sharp eye out for weeds of bitter discontent. A thistle or two gone to seed can ruin a whole garden in no time. Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God’s lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God’s blessing—but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.
- 1 Corinthians 12:1 - What I want to talk about now is the various ways God’s Spirit gets worked into our lives. This is complex and often misunderstood, but I want you to be informed and knowledgeable. Remember how you were when you didn’t know God, led from one phony god to another, never knowing what you were doing, just doing it because everybody else did it? It’s different in this life. God wants us to use our intelligence, to seek to understand as well as we can. For instance, by using your heads, you know perfectly well that the Spirit of God would never prompt anyone to say “Jesus be damned!” Nor would anyone be inclined to say “Jesus is Master!” without the insight of the Holy Spirit.
- 1 Corinthians 14:39 - Three things, then, to sum this up: When you speak forth God’s truth, speak your heart out. Don’t tell people how they should or shouldn’t pray when they’re praying in tongues that you don’t understand. Be courteous and considerate in everything.