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100 Bible Verses about Edification

1 Corinthians 14:26 ESV / 926 helpful votes

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.

Romans 15:2 ESV / 897 helpful votes

Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

1 Corinthians 14:3 ESV / 877 helpful votes

On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.

Romans 14:19 ESV / 799 helpful votes

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding.

1 Corinthians 14:12 ESV / 788 helpful votes

So with yourselves, since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church.

Ephesians 4:29 ESV / 778 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 8:1 ESV / 758 helpful votes

Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.

Ephesians 4:12 ESV / 695 helpful votes

To equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV / 673 helpful votes

Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

2 Corinthians 12:19 ESV / 656 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 14:5 ESV / 644 helpful votes

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.

2 Corinthians 13:10 ESV / 625 helpful votes

For this reason I write these things while I am away from you, that when I come I may not have to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord has given me for building up and not for tearing down.

Ephesians 4:16 ESV / 605 helpful votes

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.

1 Timothy 1:4 ESV / 566 helpful votes

Nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith.

1 Corinthians 10:23 ESV / 550 helpful votes

“All things are lawful,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.

2 Corinthians 10:8 ESV / 534 helpful votes

For even if I boast a little too much of our authority, which the Lord gave for building you up and not for destroying you, I will not be ashamed.

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 527 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 527 helpful votes

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Acts 20:32 ESV / 526 helpful votes

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 511 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Luke 1:37 ESV / 511 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

1 Corinthians 14:4 ESV / 494 helpful votes

The one who speaks in a tongue builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church.

Ephesians 4:13 ESV / 480 helpful votes

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,

Ephesians 4:11-12 ESV / 455 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,

John 3:16-17 ESV / 443 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Ephesians 4:11-13 ESV / 442 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 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,

1 Peter 4:10 ESV / 429 helpful votes

As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace:

1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV / 429 helpful votes

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 418 helpful votes

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Colossians 1:28 ESV / 395 helpful votes

Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 390 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

James 1:5 ESV / 390 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 388 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 388 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Matthew 6:1-34 ESV / 382 helpful votes

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 377 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Titus 2:1 ESV / 374 helpful votes

But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine.

Ephesians 4:15-16 ESV / 372 helpful votes

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.

James 3:17 ESV / 370 helpful votes

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Acts 20:20 ESV / 369 helpful votes

How I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 368 helpful votes

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Proverbs 9:10 ESV / 364 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

Proverbs 4:13 ESV / 364 helpful votes

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Proverbs 18:15 ESV / 363 helpful votes

An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 9:9 ESV / 363 helpful votes

Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.

Acts 7:22 ESV / 361 helpful votes

And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 361 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:8 ESV / 358 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

Acts 9:31 ESV / 355 helpful votes

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.

Psalm 119:66 ESV / 353 helpful votes

Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.

1 Corinthians 14:1-40 ESV / 351 helpful votes

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy. For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit. On the other hand, the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation. 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. ...

1 Corinthians 14:2 ESV / 345 helpful votes

For one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men but to God; for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the Spirit.

2 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 341 helpful votes

And how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 4:14 ESV / 328 helpful votes

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.

Ephesians 4:2 ESV / 323 helpful votes

With all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Timothy 1:2 ESV / 319 helpful votes

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 3:16 ESV / 318 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 14:6 ESV / 311 helpful votes

Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 308 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 306 helpful votes

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Acts 2:4 ESV / 304 helpful votes

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Ephesians 4:11-16 ESV / 302 helpful votes

And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 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, ...

1 Corinthians 14:8 ESV / 302 helpful votes

And if the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle?

1 Corinthians 14:33 ESV / 301 helpful votes

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 300 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

1 Corinthians 12:6 ESV / 300 helpful votes

And there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.

Jude 1:20 ESV / 294 helpful votes

But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 4:7 ESV / 288 helpful votes

But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.

Romans 15:16 ESV / 287 helpful votes

To be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 14:39 ESV / 285 helpful votes

So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 285 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

James 1:17 ESV / 283 helpful votes

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 283 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

1 Corinthians 12:30 ESV / 282 helpful votes

Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

Revelation 2:3 ESV / 280 helpful votes

I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 280 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

1 Peter 2:5 ESV / 279 helpful votes

You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 279 helpful votes

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Titus 2:7-8 ESV / 278 helpful votes

Show yourself in all respects to be a model of good works, and in your teaching show integrity, dignity, and sound speech that cannot be condemned, so that an opponent may be put to shame, having nothing evil to say about us.

Titus 2:5 ESV / 278 helpful votes

To be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Ephesians 4:6 ESV / 275 helpful votes

One God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

1 Corinthians 14:27-28 ESV / 264 helpful votes

If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.

Romans 12:1 ESV / 251 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 243 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 232 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 232 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

1 Corinthians 4:7 ESV / 229 helpful votes

For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 229 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Hebrews 5:12 ESV / 214 helpful votes

For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,

Philippians 2:4 ESV / 212 helpful votes

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Ephesians 6:2 ESV / 194 helpful votes

“Honor your father and mother” (this is the first commandment with a promise),

Ephesians 4:12-16 ESV / 183 helpful votes

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.

Hebrews 12:14 ESV / 150 helpful votes

Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

1 Corinthians 7:15 ESV / 112 helpful votes

But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.

Romans 12:18 ESV / 109 helpful votes

If possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all.

Psalm 34:14 ESV / 99 helpful votes

Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.

1 Corinthians 1:1-31 ESV / 91 helpful votes

Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— ...

1 Peter 3:2 ESV / 89 helpful votes

When they see your respectful and pure conduct.

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

1 Corinthians 12:11 ESV / 68 helpful votes

All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

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