<p class="bodytext">They court you eagerly,<n id="1" /> but for no good purpose;<n id="2" /> they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.<n id="3" />

But you should be eager for the greater gifts.p> <p class="bodytext">And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Pursue love and be eager for the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

So then, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> be eager to prophesy, and do not forbid anyone from speaking in tongues.<n id="2" />

However, it is good<n id="1" /> to be sought eagerly<n id="2" /> for a good purpose<n id="3" /> at all times, and not only when I am present with you.

All those<n id="1" /> I love, I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent!

The<n id="1" /> patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold<n id="2" /> him into Egypt. But<n id="3" /> God was with him,

<p class="bodytext">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,<n id="1" /> to present you as a pure<n id="2" /> virgin to Christ.

But the Jews became jealous,<n id="1" /> and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace,<n id="2" /> they formed a mob<n id="3" /> and set the city in an uproar.<n id="4" /> They attacked Jason&#8217;s house,<n id="5" /> trying to find Paul and Silas<n id="6" /> to bring them out to the assembly.<n id="7" />

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;