Topic
Edification; Edify
6 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- 2 Corinthians 10:8ISBE
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:
- 2 Corinthians 13:10ISBE
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.
- Ephesians 4:12ISBE
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
- Ephesians 4:16ISBE
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.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:11ISBE
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
- 1 Timothy 1:4ISBE
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 6 references
ed-i-fi-ka'-shun, ed'-i-fi:
The Greek words oikodomeo, "to build," oikodome, "the act of building," are used both literally and figuratively in the New Testament; "edify," "edifying," "edification," are the translation of the King James Version in some 20 passages, all in the figurative sense of the promotion of growth in Christian character. the Revised Version (British and American) in 2Co 10:8; 13:10; Eph 4:12,16; 1Th 5:11 renders "build up," "building up," making the force of the figure clearer to the English reader. In 1Ti 1:4 the Greek text followed by the Revised Version (British and American) has oikonomia, "dispensation," instead of oikodomia, "edifying" (the King James Version).
F. K. Farr
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.