31But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
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Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 27-31)I. Here the apostle sums up the argument, and applies this similitude to the church of Christ, concerning which observe, 1. The relation wherein Christians stand to Christ and one another. The church, or whole collective body of Christians, in all ages, is his body. Every Christian is a member of his body, and every other Christian stands related to him as a fellow-member (12:27): Now you are the…
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