All 17 Uses
edify
in
New Testament
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- 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.†
Book 5.edified = instructed
- 14:19 Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.†
Book 6.edify = instruct
- 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.†
Book 6. *edification = instruction
- 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.†
Book 7.edify = instruct
- 14:3 But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort.†
Book 7.edification = instruction
- 14:5 I would that ye all spake with tongues but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.†
Book 7.edifying = instructive
- 14:12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.†
Book 7.
- 14:17 For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified.†
Book 7.edified = instructed
- Let all things be done unto edifying.†
Book 7.edifying = instructive
- 10:8 For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 10:9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters.†
Book 8.edification = instruction
- we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.†
Book 8.edifying = instructive
- 13:10 Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpness, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction.†
Book 8.edification = instruction
- 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 4:13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;†
Book 10.edifying = instructive
- 4:15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.†
Book 10.
- 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.†
Book 10.
- 5:11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.†
Book 13.edify = instruct
- 1:3 As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.†
Book 15.edifying = instructive
Definitions:
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(1)
(edify) to instruct -- morally or intellectually
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)