But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual {gifts}, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Despise not prophesyings.

But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or {one} unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater {is} he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men {to} edification, and exhortation, and comfort.

To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another {divers} kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual {gifts}, but rather that ye may prophesy.

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Charity never faileth: but whether {there be} prophecies, they shall fail; whether {there be} tongues, they shall cease; whether {there be} knowledge, it shall vanish away. {fail: Gr. vanish away}

Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.

And though I have {the gift of} prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.