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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But covet earnestly the best gifts,.... Which may be rendered either indicatively as an assertion, "ye do covet earnestly the best gifts": of prophesying and teaching, of doing miracles, healing diseases, speaking with, and interpreting, different tongues and languages; but I can, and do show you something that is better, and more excellent than...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But covet earnestly the best gifts: I would not wish you, brother, to repress your aspirations after these blessings; I am most anxious that you should earnestly desire and seek to possess a large share of all these spiritual endowments. 1Co_12:31. And yet shew I unto you a more excellent way. Which is, holding the truth in love, and walking in...