013:012 For the present we see things as if in a mirror, and are puzzled; but then we shall see them face to face. For the present the knowledge I gain is imperfect; but then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 013:013 And so there remain Faith, Hope, Love--these three; and of these the greatest is Love. 014:001 Be eager in your pursuit of this Love, and be earnestly ambitious for spiritual gifts, but let it be chiefly so in order that you may prophesy. 014:002 For he who speaks in an unknown tongue is not speaking to men, but to God; for no one understands him. Yet in the Spirit he is speaking secret truths. 014:003 But he who prophesies speaks to men words of edification, encouragement and comfort. 014:004 He who speaks in an unknown tongue does good to himself, but he who prophesies does good to the Church. 014:005 I should be right glad were you all to speak in `tongues,' but yet more glad were you all to prophesy. And, in fact, the man who prophesies is superior to him who speaks in `tongues,' except when the latter can interpret in order that the Church may get a blessing. 014:006 But, brethren, as things are, if I come to you speaking in `tongues,' what benefit shall I confer on you, if the utterance is neither in the form of a revelation nor of additional knowledge nor of prophecy nor of teaching? 014:007 Even inanimate things--flutes or harps, for instance-- when yielding a sound, if they make no distinction in the notes, how shall the tune which is played on the flute or the harp be known? 014:008 If the bugle--to take another example--gives an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle? 014:009 And so with you; if with the living voice you fail to utter intelligible words, how will people know what you are saying? You will be talking to the winds. 014:010 There are, we will suppose, a great number of languages in the world, and no creature is without a language. 014:011 If, however, I do not know the meaning of the particular language, I shall seem to the speaker of it, and he to me, to be merely talking some foreign tongue. 014:012 Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church. 014:013 Therefore let a man who has the gift of tongues pray for the power of interpreting them. 014:014 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is barren. 014:015 How then does the matter stand? I will pray in spirit, and I will pray with my understanding also. I will praise God in spirit, and I will praise Him with my understanding also.