1 Corinthians 14:26
What then is it, brothers? Whenever you may come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up;
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Romans 14:19So, then, may we pursue the things of peace, and the things of building up one another.
1 Corinthians 14:4he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue, edifies himself, and he who is prophesying, edifies the Assembly;
1 Corinthians 14:27if anyone speaks an [unknown] tongue, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;
2 Corinthians 12:19Again, [do] you think that we are making defense to you? We speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, [are] for your up-building,
Ephesians 4:12to the perfecting of the holy ones, for a work of ministry, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt word go forth out of your mouth, but what is good to the necessary building up, 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 →