1 Corinthians 14:26
What do I suggest, then, friends? Whenever you meet for worship, each of you comes, either with a hymn, or a lesson, or a revelation, or the gift of ‘tongues,’ or the interpretation of them; let everything be directed to the building up of faith.
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Romans 14:19Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.
1 Corinthians 14:4Those who, when speaking, use the gift of ‘tongues’ build up their own faith, while those who preach build up the faith of the church.
1 Corinthians 14:27If any of you use the gift of ‘tongues,’ not more than two, or at the most three, should do so – each speaking in his turn – and someone should interpret them.
2 Corinthians 12:19Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters;
Ephesians 4:12to fit his people for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ.
Ephesians 4:29Never let any foul word pass your lips, but only such good words as the occasion demands, so that they may be a help to those who hear them.
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 →