1 Corinthians 14:26
How is it then, brethren ? When you come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation: let all things be done to edification.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Romans 14:19Therefore let us follow after the things that are of peace; and keep the things that are of edification one towards another.
1 Corinthians 14:4He that speaketh in a tongue, edifieth himself: but he that prophesieth, edifieth the church.
1 Corinthians 14:27If any speak with a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in course, and let one interpret.
2 Corinthians 12:19Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:12For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Ephesians 4:29Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth; but that which is good, to the edification of faith, that it may administer 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 →