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NASB | 1 Corinthians 14:1 Pursue love, yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 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 prophesy [to foretell the future, to speak a new message from God to the people]. |
Subject: Praying in Tongues? |
Bible Note: Amen, Searcher. Amen. Perhaps the Corinthians were, as some of today’s Churches (but, Praise God, definitely not all) “practicing trend over truth". But we mustn't allow trends to discredit truth, correct? Rather we need to let the truth challenge "trends" back to the Biblical. That's where 1st Corinthians 14’s "purpose" comes in. Your closing "argument" offers great evidence re-enforcing "God's way" over man's. Taleb |