Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
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Gill's Exposition
Follow after charity,.... The apostle having so highly commended charity, or love, in the preceding chapter, presses here to an eager pursuit after it; that is, to an exercise of it, and after those…
Barnes' Notes
Follow after charity - Pursue love 1Co 13:1; that is, earnestly desire it; strive to possess it; make it the object of your anxious and constant solicitude to obtain it, and to be influenced by it…
Adam Clarke
Follow after charity - Most earnestly labor to be put in possession of that love which beareth, believeth, hopeth, and endureth all things. It may be difficult to acquire, and difficult to retain this…
The apostle, in the foregoing chapter, had himself preferred, and advised the Corinthians to prefer, Christian charity to all spiritual gifts. Here he teaches them, among spiritual gifts, which they…
Cambridge Bible
1Co 14:1-25. The superiority of the gift of prophecy to that of tongues
1. desire Literally, be zealous for, envious of. See note on ch. 1Co 12:31. The best gifts (see note there) were those that were…
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