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NASB					1 Cor 14:1 ^APursue¹³⁷⁷ love²⁶, yet¹¹⁶¹ ^Bdesire²²⁰⁶ earnestly²²⁰⁶ ^Cspiritual⁴¹⁵² gifts, but especially³¹²³ that you may ^Dprophesy⁴³⁹⁵.
AMPLIFIED 2015					1 Cor 14:1 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 ¹prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people].

Amplified 2015 Translator's Notes:
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In both the Old and the New Testaments, prophets are divinely inspired to foretell the future in the process of delivering God's word to the people. Paul is saying to the Corinthians that all gifts are worthy and necessary (cf 12:11, 18, 29, 30), but that they should give the gift of prophecy the highest priority (cf Deut 18).

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1 Cor 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love.

1 Cor 12:31 But earnestly desire the greater gifts. ¶ And I show you a still more excellent way.

1 Cor 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware.

1 Cor 13:2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.

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Greek Heb.

agapê; from 25; love, goodwill:--beloved(1), love(1), love(112), love feasts(1), love's(1).

1161

de; a prim. word; but, and, now, (a connective or adversative particle):--after(2), also(2), another*(8), even(4), even though(1), former*(1), however(6), moreover(1), moreover*(1), nevertheless(1), now(267), or(6), other(1), other hand(4), others*(3), partly(1), rather(1), so(12), suppose*(1), then(6), therefore(1), though(1), what(1), when(3), whereas(2), yes(1), yet(25).

1377

diôkô; akin to a prim. vb. diô (put to flight); to put to flight, pursue, by impl. to persecute:--persecute(10), persecuted(13), persecuting(7), persecutor(1), practicing(1), press(2), pursue(7), pursuing(2), run after(1), seek after(1).

2206

zêloô; from 2205b; to be jealous:--am jealous(1), becoming jealous(1), desire earnestly(2), eagerly seek(1), eagerly sought(1), earnestly desire(1), envious(1), jealous(2), seek(1).

3123

mallon; cptv. of the same as 3122; more:--all the more(3), better*(2), especially(1), even farther(1), greater(1), instead(4), less(1), more(35), much(2), rather(25), still more(2), truer(1).

4152

pneumatikos; from 4151; spiritual:--spiritual(23), spiritual men(1), spiritual things(2).

4395

prophêteuô; from 4396; to foretell, tell forth, prophesy:--prophesied(5), prophesies(3), prophesy(16), prophesying(3), prophetesses(1).

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