Bible Cross References
covet
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning the things offered to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Pursue love, and desire the spiritual [gifts], but especially that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:39
Therefore, brothers, seek to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Luke 10:42
But one [thing] is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her."
shew
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become [as] sounding brass or a clashing cymbal.
2
And though I have [the gift of] prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3
And though I give away all my possessions to feed [the poor], and though I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4
Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not puffed up;
5
does not behave disgracefully, does not seek its own, is not provoked to anger, thinks no evil;
6
does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7
bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8
Love never fails. But whether there [are] prophecies, they shall pass away; whether there [are] tongues, they shall cease; whether there [is] knowledge, it shall pass away.
9
Now we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10
But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is partial shall pass away.
11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.
12
For now we see through a mirror by reflection, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Philippians 3:8
More than that I also consider all things to be loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have sustained the loss of all things, and I consider them to be rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, through which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying concerning his gifts; and through it, although he died, he still speaks.