Other Spiritual Gifts
While not specifically defined as spiritual gifts in the Bible, other abilities and capacities have been considered as spiritual gifts by some Christians. Some are found in the New Testament such as:
- celibacy (I Corinthians 7:7)
- hospitality (1 Peter 4:9-10)
- intercession (Rom. 8:26:27)
- marriage (I Corinthians 7:7)
- (effective) witnessing (Acts 1:8, 5:32, 26:22, 1 John 5:6)
Others are found in the Old Testament such as:
- craftsmanship (such as the special abilities given to artisans who constructed the Tabernacle in Exodus 35:30-33)
- interpretation of dreams (e.g. Joseph and Daniel)
- composing spiritual music, poetry, and prose
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“The true thrift is always to spend on the higher plane; to invest and invest, with keener avarice, that he may spend in spiritual creation, and not in augmenting animal existence. Nor is the man enriched, in repeating the old experiments of animal sensation; nor unless through new powers and ascending pleasures he knows himself by the actual experience of higher good to be already on the way to the highest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)