 For some reason people have got this notion that our spiritual gifts are to benefit ourselves. But did you know there's not one spiritual gift, not even one example in the Bible, where a spiritual gift is used for the benefit of that person's self? Paul is written earlier. He says that I don't want you to be ignorant concerning spiritual gifts. And then he looked what he says in verse 7. He says, But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good of others. In 1 Peter chapter 4 he says that when you have these spiritual gifts, as each one has received a special gift, look what he says. He says, Employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. And so our purpose of having these gifts from the Holy Spirit, these spiritual things, are to benefit others, not yourself. Do not get in the habit of following people who have abused the grace of God for the benefit of themselves. Selfish people probably don't know God, or at least don't know him very well.