Build Up the Church

12 So it is with yourselves; since you are so eager and ambitious to possess spiritual endowments and manifestations of the [Holy] Spirit, [concentrate on] striving to excel and to abound [in them] in ways that will build up the church. 

~ 1 Corinthians 14:12 (AMPC)

Live to Please God

Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. 

~ 1 Thessalonians 4:1 (NASB)

Build Up the Church

So it is with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, try to excel in gifts that build up the church. ~ 1 Corinthians 14:12 (NIV 1984)