1 Corinthians 14:26
What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;
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Romans 14:19So, then, the things of peace may we pursue, and the things of building up one another;
1 Corinthians 14:4he who is speaking in an [unknown] tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;
1 Corinthians 14:27if an [unknown] tongue any one do speak, by two, or at the most, by three, and in turn, and let one interpret;
2 Corinthians 12:19Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, [are] for your up-building,
Ephesians 4:12unto the perfecting of the saints, for a work of ministration, for a building up of the body of the Christ,
Ephesians 4:29Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful 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 →