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 will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.
The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!
So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.
Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
For the training of the saints as servants in the church, for the building up of the body of Christ: Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:
Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit,