1 Corinthians 14:12-17 so also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that you may abound;

RYLT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹² so also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that you may abound; ¹³ wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret; ¹⁴ for if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit does pray, and my understanding is unfruitful. ¹⁵ What then is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing psalms with the spirit, and I will sing psalms also with the understanding; ¹⁶ since, if you may bless with the spirit, he who is filling the place of the unlearned, how shall he say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, since what you do say he has not known? ¹⁷ for you, indeed, do give thanks well, but the other is not built up!