Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
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.
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.
Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
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.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.
So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
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.
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.
for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more,
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.
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