EDIFY ONE ANOTHER

Greek:

oikodomeo - meaning to build up as a house, construct, as living stones,

           encourage spiritual progress by word and example, thus to

 build up spiritually.

oikodome –   meaning building up

oikodeme –   meaning building up

oikodomia – meaning building up

1.     Acts 9:31 “Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified (oikodomeo);”

2.     Romans 14:19   “Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify (oikomomeo) another.”

3.     Romans 15:2  “Let everyone of us please his neighbor for his good to edification (oikodome).”

4.     I Corinthians 8:1  “Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge, knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth (oikomomeo).

5.     I Corinthians 10:23  “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify (oikomomeo) not.

6.     I Corinthians 14:3 “But he that prophetieth speaketh unto men to edification (oiodome), and exhortation, and comfort.”

7.     I Corinthians 14:4 “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth (oikodomeo)himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.”

8.     I Corinthians 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 many receive edifying (oikodome).”

9.     I Corinthians 14:12 “Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying (oikodome) of the church.”

10.                          I Corinthians 14:17 “For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified (oikodomeo).”

11.                          I Corinthians 14:26 “How is it then, brethren?  When ye come together , every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation.  Let all things be done unto edifying (oikodome).”

12.                          II Corinthians 10:8 “For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification (oikodome), and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:”

13.                          II Corinthians 12:19 “Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto your?  We speak before God in Christ: but we do all things dearly beloved, for your edifying (oikodome).”

14.                          II Corinthians 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 (oikodome), and not to destruction.”

15.                           Ephesians 4:12 “For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying (oikodome) of the body of Christ:”

16.                          Ephesians 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 (oikodome)of itself in love.”

17.                          Ephesians 14:29 “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying (oikodome), that it may minister grace unto the hearers.”

18.                          I Thessalonians 5:11  “Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify (oikomomeo) one another, even as also ye do.”

19.                          I Timothy 1:4 “Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions rather than godly edifying (oikodomia) which is in faith: so do.”