1 Corinthians 14:26
What is it then, brethren? whenever ye come together, each [of you] has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.
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Romans 14:19So then let us pursue the things which tend to peace, and things whereby one shall build up another.
1 Corinthians 14:4He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies [the] assembly.
1 Corinthians 14:27If any one speak with a tongue, [let it be] two, or at the most three, and separately, and let one interpret;
2 Corinthians 12:19Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up.
Ephesians 4:12for the perfecting of the saints; with a view to [the] work of [the] ministry, with a view to the edifying of the body of Christ;
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it].
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 →