Bible Cross References
covet
1 Corinthians 8:1
Now concerning sacrifices to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Pursue love, and be zealous over spiritual matters, but rather that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:39
Therefore, brethren, be zealous to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with 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 will not be taken away from her.
shew
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1
If I were to speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
2
And if I were to have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I were to have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
3
And if I were to bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I were to give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4
Love is longsuffering and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast itself, is not puffed up;
5
does not behave indecently, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil;
6
does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth;
7
covers all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8
Love never fails. But if there are prophecies, they will come to an end; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will come to an end.
9
For we know in part and we prophesy in part.
10
But when the complete whole comes, then that which is in part will come to an end.
11
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put an end to childish things.
12
For now we see through a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall fully know just as I also am fully known.
13
And now remain faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Philippians 3:8
But no, rather, I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, 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 of his gifts; and through it he being dead still speaks.