1 Corinthians 14:31

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.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

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

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

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

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

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.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls, and doesn’t have another to lift him up.

“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?

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

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

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

Don’t count him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

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

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.

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

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

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all.

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.

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.

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,

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.

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,

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

“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

But when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”

Many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to console them concerning their brother.

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.”

Having spent some time there, he departed, and went through the region of Galatia, and Phrygia, in order, establishing all the disciples.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

whenever I travel to Spain, I will come to you. For I hope to see you on my journey, and to be helped on my way there by you, if first I may enjoy your company for a while.

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

Let the wives be quiet in the assemblies, for it has not been permitted for them to be talking except in submission, as the law also says,

But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

for this cause, brothers, we were comforted over you in all our distress and affliction through your faith.

“Therefore listen to me, you men of understanding: far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.

“If now you have understanding, hear this. Listen to the voice of my words.

Men of understanding will tell me, yes, every wise man who hears me:

that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

Instruct a wise person, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous person, and he will increase in learning.

The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Poverty and shame come to him who refuses discipline, but he who heeds correction shall be honored.

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.

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.

Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.

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

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation.

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

However in the assembly I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I might instruct others also, than ten thousand words in another language.

if they desire to learn anything. “Let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a wife to be talking in the assembly.”

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.

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

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

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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.

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.

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

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