1 Corinthians 14:3

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:

rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are expedient. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be brought under the power of anything.

However, that knowledge isn’t in all men. But some, with consciousness of the idol until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

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

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state and that he may comfort your hearts.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no one despise you.

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

Give us today our daily bread.

who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.

For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek.

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Don’t let him who eats despise him who doesn’t eat. Don’t let him who doesn’t eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.

Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, by me, Silvanus, and Timothy, was not “Yes and no,” but in him is “Yes.”

Let each man give according as he has determined in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

Command and teach these things.

Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.

Those who sin, reprove in the sight of all, that the rest also may be in fear.

For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort with all patience and teaching.

This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Behold, one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name, came; and seeing him, he fell at his feet,

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality, from which if you keep yourselves, it will be well with you. Farewell.”

But these things don’t count; nor do I hold my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to fully testify to the Good News of the grace of God.

If it is possible, as much as it is up to you, be at peace with all men.

So then, let’s follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

I myself am also persuaded about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish others.

who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.

What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, or has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

that their hearts may be comforted, they being knit together in love, and gaining all riches of the full assurance of understanding, that they may know the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ,

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word or by letter.

Pay attention to yourself and to your teaching. Continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and those who hear you.

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict those who contradict him.

But say the things which fit sound doctrine,

Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.

Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters and to be well-pleasing in all things, not contradicting,

Therefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world: your faith.

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

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

But I have this against you, that you tolerate your woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.

After the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent to them, saying, “Brothers, if you have any word of exhortation for the people, speak.”

Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,

So the assemblies throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace, and were built up. They were multiplied, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit.

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words and strengthened them.

or he who exhorts, to his exhorting; he who gives, let him do it with generosity; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.

For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.

Therefore, brothers, desire earnestly to prophesy, and don’t forbid speaking with other languages.

who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that they work with quietness and eat their own bread.

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

Those who have believing masters, let them not despise them because they are brothers, but rather let them serve them, because those who partake of the benefit are believing and beloved. Teach and exhort these things.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Through Silvanus, our faithful brother, as I consider him, I have written to you briefly, exhorting, and testifying that this is the true grace of God in which you stand.

He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.