Bible verses about "utterance" | Riverside

¹ IF I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have the power of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ And if I distribute all that I have to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. ⁴ Love is longsuffering, love is kind, is not jealous, love does not boast, is not conceited, ⁵ does not behave unbecomingly, does not seek her own interest, is not irritable, does not count up her wrongs, ⁶ does not rejoice in wickedness, but rejoices with the truth, ⁷ excuses all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. ⁸ Love never fails; but if there are prophetic powers, they will become useless; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will become useless. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes what is in part will become useless. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. Since I have become a man, I have no use for childish things. ¹² For as yet we are looking at puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then face to face. As yet I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I have been fully known. ¹³ But now faith, hope, love — these three — endure. And the greatest of these is love.

¹ CONCERNING spiritual things, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant. ² For you know that when you were Gentiles you were led away after the dumb idols just as might happen. ³ Therefore I inform you that no one speaking in the Spirit of God says, "Jesus is accursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except in the Holy Spirit. ⁴ There are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. ⁵ And there are varieties of service, but the same Lord. ⁶ And there are varieties of products, but the same God who produces all things in all. ⁷ To each one is given some manifestation of the Spirit for what is profitable. ⁸ To one are given, through the Spirit, words of wisdom, to another words of knowledge by the same Spirit, ⁹ to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit, ¹⁰ to another works of power, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another varieties of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues. ¹¹ One and the same Spirit produces all of these gifts, distributing to each one individually as he will. ¹² For as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so also is Christ. ¹³ For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and were all made to drink of one Spirit. ¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many. ¹⁵ If the foot says, "Because I am not a hand I am not of the body," it is not for that reason not of the body. ¹⁶ And if the ear says, "Because I am not an eye I am not of the body," it is not for that reason not of the body. ¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? ¹⁸ But now God has placed the members each one of them in the body as he pleased. ¹⁹ If all were one member, where would be the body? ²⁰ But now the members are many, but the body is one. ²¹ And the eye cannot say to the hand, "I have no need of you," or the head to the feet, "I have no need of you." ²² Indeed, much more those members of the body that seem to be the weaker are necessary, ²³ and those that we deem the less honorable parts of the body we surround with greater honor and our uncomely parts have additional dignity, ²⁴ while our comely parts have no need. But God has organized the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacks, ²⁵ that there may be no discord in the body, but that the members may have a common concern for one another. ²⁶ And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; if a member is honored, all the members rejoice with it. ²⁷ You are the body of Christ and individually members. ²⁸ God placed some in the church first as apostles, secondly as prophets, thirdly as teachers, then miracle-workers, then those with gifts of healing, helpers, administrators, speakers of different kinds of tongues. ²⁹ Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all miracle-workers? ³⁰ Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? ³¹ Seek earnestly for the greater gifts; and yet I will show you a way that surpasses all.

⁸ Beware that no one carries you away captive by his philosophy and empty deceit according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary teachings of the world and not according to Christ.

¹⁶ All Scripture is divinely inspired and is useful for teaching, for proof, for correction of error, for education in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

²¹ for prophecy never came by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.

²⁰ since you know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from any one's private interpretation,

⁴ They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in foreign tongues, as the Spirit gave them power of expression.