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    Spiritual desire

    TOPICAL STUDY

    SPIRITUAL DESIRE

    ROM 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

    ROM 12:3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

    ROM 12:4 For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

    ROM 12:5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

    ROM 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;

    ROM 12:7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;

    ROM 12:8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

    1CO 12:1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.

    1CO 12:2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led.

    1CO 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.

    1CO 12:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

    1CO 12:5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord.

    1CO 12:6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all.

    1CO 12:7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

    1CO 12:8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

    1CO 12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

    1CO 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

    1CO 12:11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

    1CO 12:12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

    1CO 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

    1CO 12:14 For the body is not one member, but many.

    1CO 12:15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

    1CO 12:16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

    1CO 12:17 If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

    1CO 12:18 But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

    1CO 12:19 And if they were all one member, where were the body?

    1CO 12:20 But now are they many members, yet but one body.

    1CO 12:21 And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

    1CO 12:22 Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

    1CO 12:23 And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

    1CO 12:24 For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked.

    1CO 12:25 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

    1CO 12:26 And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

    1CO 12:27 Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

    1CO 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

    1CO 12:29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

    1CO 12:30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

    1CO 12:31 But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

    1CO 14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

    1CO 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

    EPH 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

    EPH 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

    EPH 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

    EPH 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

    EPH 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

    EPH 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

    EPH 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

    1PE 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

    1PE 4:11 If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

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