1 Corinthians 14:26
How is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each of you has a psalm, has an instruction, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to edification.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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Romans 14:19So then, let us follow after the things which make for peace, and things by which one may edify another.
1 Corinthians 14:4He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies the church.
1 Corinthians 14:27If any one speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and in turn; and let one interpret.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do ye again suppose that we are excusing ourselves to you[12:19]? Before God in Christ we speak; and all, beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:12for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ;
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may impart 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 →