12So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.


In Context

9 So it is with you. Unless you speak intelligible words with your tongue, how will anyone know what you are saying? You will just be speaking into the air.

10 Undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world, yet none of them is without meaning.

11 If then I do not grasp the meaning of what someone is saying, I am a foreigner to the speaker, and he is a foreigner to me.

12 So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church.

13 For this reason anyone who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret what he says.

14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

1st Corinthians 14:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts,] seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:12So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:12So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts , seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12Thus ye also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:12So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:12so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:12Even so you, for as much as you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that you may excel to the edifying of the church.