Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were built up. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

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

who will also confirm you to the end, that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

He who speaks in a tongue builds himself up, but he who prophesies builds up the church.

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.

How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.

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.

being rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

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

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

and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.

when I call to remembrance the genuine faith that is in you, which dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am persuaded is in you also.

Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and full true knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Do you see how faith was working together with his works, and from works faith was made complete?

Simon Peter, a bondservant and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who have obtained like precious faith with us by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:

For whatever is born from God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world; our faith.

He who leads into captivity shall go into captivity; he who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

And I will pour on the house of David, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and supplication. And they shall look on Me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they shall be bitter over Him, like the bitterness over the firstborn.

For you did not receive a spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, Abba, Father.

Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to God.

What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the mind. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the mind.

And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, Abba, Father!

praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints;