1 Corinthians 14:26
What, then, is it, brethren? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has something to teach, has an unknown tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
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Romans 14:19Therefore, let us seek those things which belong to peace, and those which tend to mutual edification.
1 Corinthians 14:4He that speaks in an unknown tongue, edifies himself; but he that prophesies, edifies the church.
1 Corinthians 14:27If any speak in an unknown tongue, let two, or, at most, three, speak at each meeting, and in succession: and let one interpret.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do you think again that we offer you a defense of ourselves? We speak all these things before God in Christ, beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:12for the complete instruction of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ,
Ephesians 4:29Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 14:22-26
On Spiritual Gifts. ( a. d. 57.) 21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. 23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or… Read the whole commentary →