1 Corinthians 14:26
What is next, brothers? When you gather together, each one of you may have a psalm, or a doctrine, or a revelation, or a language, or an interpretation, but let everything be done for edification.
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Romans 14:19And so, let us pursue the things that are of peace, and let us keep to the things that are for the edification of one another.
1 Corinthians 14:4Whoever speaks in tongues edifies himself. But whoever prophesies edifies the Church.
1 Corinthians 14:27If anyone is speaking in tongues, let there be only two, or at most three, and then in turn, and let someone interpret.
2 Corinthians 12:19Have you ever thought that we should explain ourselves to you? We speak in the sight of God, in Christ. But all things, most beloved, are for your edification.
Ephesians 4:12for the sake of the perfection of the saints, by the work of the ministry, in the edification of the body of Christ,
Ephesians 4:29Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.
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 →