Therefore encourage one another with these words.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting; and so much the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Therefore let us pursue the things of peace and the things that build up one another.

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

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things build up.

I wish you all spoke with tongues, but rather that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive building up.

Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual matters, seek to excel in the building up of the church.

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern.

Again, do you think that we defend ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ. But we do all things, beloved, for your edification.

for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the building up of the body of Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every individual does its part, causes growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for the business of building up, that it may impart grace to the hearers.

nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which cause disputes rather than godly edification which is in faith.

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

and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you abound more and more;

Now I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.

For this reason I will not be negligent to always remind you of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth.