Thematic Bible: Is the object of
Thematic Bible
Edification » Is the object of » Ministerial gifts
So also you, since you are earnestly desirous of spirits [spiritual gifts], seek to abound for the edification of the church.
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but he that prophesies speaks to men to edification and exhortation and consolation. He that speaks with a tongue edifies himself; but he that prophesies edifies an assembly. I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you should prophesy; and he that prophesies is greater than he that speaks with tongues, unless he interprets, that the assembly may receive edification.
Edification » Is the object of » Ministerial authority
For if I should even boast some of our authority which the Lord gave for your edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed.
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For this reason, being absent, I write these things, that I may not use sharpness when present, with the power which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for pulling down.
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Edification » Is the object of » The ministerial office
And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edification of the body of Christ,
Edification » Is the object of » The church's union in Christ
by whom all the body being joined together and compacted by the supply of every joint, according to the proportionate operation of every part, makes increase of the body to the edification of itself in love.
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