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

If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

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.

And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.

it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with.

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known.

But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.

But the one who prophesies speaks to people for edification, exhortation, and consolation.

The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but the one who prophesies edifies the church.

Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but rather that you would prophesy; and greater is the one who prophesies than the one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edification.

But now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation, or of knowledge, or of prophecy, or of teaching?

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unproductive.

What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing with the mind also.

For you are giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not edified.

Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

So then, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.