For you were made rich in every way in him, in all your speech and in every kind of knowledge –

by purity, by knowledge, by patience, by benevolence, by the Holy Spirit, by genuine love,

So by your knowledge the weak brother or sister, for whom Christ died, is destroyed.

And even if I am unskilled in speaking, yet I am certainly not so in knowledge. Indeed, we have made this plain to you in everything in every way.

to knowledge, self-control; to self-control, perseverance; to perseverance, godliness;

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.

Now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

But as you excel in everything – in faith, in speech, in knowledge, and in all eagerness and in the love from us that is in you – make sure that you excel in this act of kindness too.