On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.
So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it.
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are, and that he may encourage your hearts.
preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.
Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. We ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. And we urge you, brothers, admonish the idle, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all.
For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,
What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. Now I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
After the reading from the Law and the Prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent a message to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of encouragement for the people, say it.”
Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,
For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive,
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
By Silvanus, a faithful brother as I regard him, I have written briefly to you, exhorting and declaring that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.
I appeal to you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you.
Those who have believing masters must not be disrespectful on the ground that they are brothers; rather they must serve all the better since those who benefit by their good service are believers and beloved. Teach and urge these things.
nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more.
and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,
For you know how, like a father with his children,
I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know how we are and that he may encourage your hearts,
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.
who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
For you may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up.
Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
the one who exhorts, in his exhortation; the one who contributes, in generosity; the one who leads, with zeal; the one who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.
And Judas and Silas, who were themselves prophets, encouraged and strengthened the brothers with many words.
strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.
So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was being built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it multiplied.
So with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people.
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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