They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.

Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

So then, brothers and sisters, be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.

However, it is good to be sought eagerly for a good purpose at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

All those I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

You desire and you do not have; you murder and envy and you cannot obtain; you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask;