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.

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

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;