'Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy'
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers,…
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be uninformed.
"Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug."
"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in…