Reference: Edification
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From ????????? 'to build, to build up.' The same word is used for the building of the Temple at Jerusalem, Joh 2:20, and by the Lord when He said He would build His assembly. Mt 16:18. ???????? occurs often in the epistles with the exhortation that all things in the church should be done to edification. Ro 14:19; 15:2; 1Co 14:3-26; Eph 4:16,29. The gifts in the church were also for the edifying of the body of Christ, Eph 4:12; and when things were at their worst Christians were exhorted to be building up themselves on their most holy faith. Jude 1:20. As a building is increased and strengthened, so the body of Christ is built up by the ministry of the Spirit through the word until all come "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." Eph 4:13.
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And I say to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church: and the gates of hades shall not prevail against it.
Then the Jews said to him: Forty and six years was this temple in building, and will you rebuild it in three days?
Therefore, let us seek those things which belong to peace, and those which tend to mutual edification.
Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification.
for the complete instruction of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the building up of the body of the Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature that fully develops the Christ;
from whom the whole body, compactly fitted together, and united by every helping joint, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body, for the building up of itself in love.
Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:
But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,