1 Corinthians 14:26
What, then, is it, brethren? Whensoever ye are coming together, each one, hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath a translation:—let, all things, be done, unto building up.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Romans 14:19Hence, then, the things pertaining to peace, let us pursue, and the things which belong to the upbuilding one of another:
1 Corinthians 14:4He that speaketh with a tongue, buildeth up, himself, whereas, he that prophesieth, buildeth up, an assembly.
1 Corinthians 14:27If, with a tongue, one is speaking, let it be by two, or, at the most, three,—and by turns; and let, one, be translating;
2 Corinthians 12:19All this time, think ye, that, unto you, we are making a defence? Before God in Christ, we speak;—but all these things, beloved, for your upbuilding.
Ephesians 4:12With a view to the fitting of the saints for the work of ministering, for an upbuilding of the body of the Christ;
Ephesians 4:29Let, no putrid discourse, out of your mouth, be going forth, but if anything is good—suited to the needful upbuilding,—that it may give benefit unto them that hear;
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 →