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 thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church; and the gates of hell shall not overcome her.
Then said the Jews, In forty-six years was this temple built, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?
So therefore, let us pursue the things of peace, and the things for the building up for one another.
For let each of us please the neighbor for good to the building.
For the adjusting of the holy, for the work of the service, for the building up of the body of Christ: Until we all arrive to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the perfect man, to the measure of age of the filling up of Christ.
From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love.
Let not any foul word go out of your mouth, but if any good to the building of necessity, that it might give grace to them hearing.
And ye, dearly beloved, building up yourselves in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,