1 Corinthians 14:26 How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. LET ALL THINGS BE DONE UNTO EDIFYING.
Proverbs 28:26 He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, But whoever walks wisely will be delivered.
1 Corinthians 14:26 (ESV) What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. LET ALL THINGS BE DONE FOR BUILDING UP.
1 Corinthians 14:26 (NET) What should you do then, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each one has a song, has a lesson, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. LET ALL THESE THINGS BE DONE FOR THE STRENGTHENING OF THE CHURCH.
1 Corinthians 14:26 (GW) So what does this mean, brothers and sisters? When you gather, each person has a psalm, doctrine, revelation, another language, or an interpretation. EVERYTHING MUST BE DONE TO HELP EACH OTHER GROW.
Macmillan Dictionary: To teach someone something that increases their knowledge or improves their character.
American Heritage Dictionary: To instruct especially so as to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement.
Merriam-Webster: To teach (someone) in a way that improves the mind or character; to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge
Barnes says this about the word edify:
″Applied to the church, it means to do anything by teaching, counsel, advice, etc. which will tend to promote its great object; to aid Christians, to enable them to surmount difficulties, to remove their ignorance, etc″
1 Corinthians 14:2–5 (NKJV)
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, FOR NO ONE UNDERSTANDS HIM; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But HE WHO PROPHESIES SPEAKS EDIFICATION and exhortation and comfort to men.
4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but HE WHO PROPHESIES EDIFIES THE CHURCH.
5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, THAT THE CHURCH MAY RECEIVE EDIFICATION.
1 Corinthians 14:12 (NIV)
12 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 (ESV)
12 So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, STRIVE TO EXCEL IN BUILDING UP THE CHURCH.
1 Corinthians 14:12 (NASB)
12 So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, SEEK TO ABOUND FOR THE EDIFICATION OF THE CHURCH.
1 Corinthians 14:12 (NET)
12 It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, SEEK TO ABOUND IN ORDER TO STRENGTHEN THE CHURCH.
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the USE OF EDIFYING, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Ephesians 4:29 (ESV) Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for BUILDING UP, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Ephesians 4:29 (NCV) When you talk, do not say harmful things, but say what people need—WORDS THAT WILL HELP OTHERS BECOME STRONGER. Then what you say will do good to those who listen to you.
Colossians 2:6–7 (NKJV) As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7 rooted and BUILT UP IN HIM and ESTABLISHED IN THE FAITH, as you have been TAUGHT, abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:7 (NIV) rooted and BUILT UP in him, STRENGTHENED IN THE FAITH as you were TAUGHT, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Ephesians 4:11–16
11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some PASTORS and TEACHERS,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, FOR THE EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST,
13 till we all come to THE UNITY OF THE FAITH and OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE SON OF GOD, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
15 but, SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body FOR THE EDIFYING of itself in love.
Titus 2:1 But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:
Acts 20:32 “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to THE WORD OF HIS GRACE, WHICH IS ABLE TO BUILD YOU UP and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
2 Corinthians 13:10 (NKJV)
10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to THE AUTHORITY which the Lord has given me FOR EDIFICATION and not for destruction.
2 Corinthians 13:10 (NIV)
10 This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority—THE AUTHORITY the Lord gave me FOR BUILDING YOU UP, not for tearing you down.
Romans 14:19 (NKJ) Therefore LET US PURSUE THE THINGS WHICH make for peace and the things by which one may EDIFY ANOTHER.
Romans 14:19 (KJV 1900) Let us therefore FOLLOW AFTER the things which make for peace, and THINGS WHEREWITH ONE MAY EDIFY ANOTHER.
Romans 14:19 (NET) So then, LET US PURSUE what makes for peace and for BUILDING UP ONE ANOTHER.
Romans 14:19 (NIV) Let us therefore MAKE EVERY EFFORT to do what leads to peace and TO MUTUAL EDIFICATION.
Romans 15:2 (NKJV)
2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, leading to EDIFICATION.
Romans 15:2 (ESV)
2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, TO BUILD HIM UP.
1 Corinthians 10:23-24
23 All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but NOT ALL THINGS EDIFY.
24 DO NOT SEEK YOUR OWN GOOD, but THE GOOD OF THE OTHER PERSON.
1 Corinthians 8:1 (NKJV) Now concerning things offered to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but LOVE EDIFIES.
James 3:15–17 (NKJV)
15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic.
16 For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
2 Corinthians 12:19 (NKJV) Again, do you think that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ. But WE DO ALL THINGS, BELOVED, FOR YOUR EDIFICATION.
2 Corinthians 12:19 (NIV) Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? We have been speaking in the sight of God as those in Christ; and EVERYTHING WE DO, DEAR FRIENDS, IS FOR YOUR STRENGTHENING.
Acts 9:31 Then THE CHURCHES throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and WERE EDIFIED. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NET) Therefore encourage one another and BUILD UP EACH OTHER, just as you are in fact doing.
Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, TEACHING AND ADMONISHING ONE ANOTHER in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
1 Timothy 1:3–4
3 As I urged you when I went into Macedonia—remain in Ephesus that you may charge some that they teach no other doctrine,
4 nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than GODLY EDIFICATION which is in faith.
Matthew Henry:
″Godly edifying is the end ministers should aim at in all their discourses, that Christians may be improving in godliness and growing up to a greater likeness to the blessed God. Again, Ministers should avoid, as much as may be, what will occasion disputes; and would do well to insist on the great and practical points of religion, about which there can be no disputes; for even disputes about great and necessary truths draw off the mind from the main design of Christianity, and eat out the vitals of religion, which consist in practice and obedience as well as in faith, that we may not hold the truth in unrighteousness, but may keep the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.″
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