16 Bible Verses about Edification, Means Of

"And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace. He is able to build you up, and to give you your inheritance among all those who are consecrated.

Nor did he with regard to the promise of God waver in unbelief, but he waxed strong in faith, while he gave God glory,

For everything that was written of old has been written for our instruction, that through patience, and through the comfort of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

and how from a child you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. Every Scripture, seeing that it is God-breathed, is also profitable for teaching, for refutation, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that the man of God may himself be complete, and completely equipped for every good work.

Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

praying him to grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in your inmost being;

Now throughout the whole of Judea, Galilee, and Samaria the Church continued to enjoy peace and to be spiritually built up. It was increasing in members also, as it kept walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

What follows, then, brothers? Whenever you meet together, each contributes something; a psalm, a sermon, a revelation, a tongue, an interpretation. Let all be done for edification.

For I am longing so to see you, in order to impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established;

Now to each man has been given his manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

But he who prophesies addresses words to men that build up, encourage, and console.

It is he who made some men apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.

but holding the truth in love we shall grow up in every part into him who is our Head, even Christ. From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.

So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.

that is, that I with you may be encouraged by you, each of us by the other's faith, yours and mine.