1 Corinthians 14:3

The one who prophesies speaks to people for their edification, encouragement, and comfort. Prophecy strengthens the church directly.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Cor 14:12So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.
• 1 Tim 4:13Until I come, pay attention to reading, to exhortation, and to teaching.
• Jude 1:20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Tim 4:2preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching.
• Eph 6:22whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our state, and that he may comfort your hearts.
• Rom 14:19So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.
• 1 Cor 14:26What is it then, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has another language, has an interpretation. Let all things be done to build each other up.
• Titus 1:9holding 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.
• 1 Cor 14:31For you all can prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be exhorted.
• 1 Th 5:11–14Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
• 1 Cor 14:4–5He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly.
• Titus 2:6Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
• Titus 2:9Exhort servants to be in subjection to their own masters, and to be well-pleasing in all things; not contradicting;
• 1 Th 2:3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.
• 1 Cor 10:23“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.
• Acts 9:31So the assemblies throughout all Judea and 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.
• 1 Tim 1:4and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith —
• 2 Cor 1:4who 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.
• 1 Th 2:11As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,
• Luke 3:18Then with many other exhortations he preached good news to the people,
• 1 Pet 5:12Through 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.
• 1 Th 4:1Finally 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.
• Acts 14:22confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into God’s Kingdom.
• Eph 4:29Let 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.
• Col 4:8I am sending him to you for this very purpose, that he may know your circumstances and comfort your hearts,
• Acts 15:32Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged the brothers with many words, and strengthened them.
• Heb 10:25not 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.
• Rom 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
• 2 Cor 2:7so 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.
• 1 Th 3:2and sent Timothy, our brother and God’s servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith;
• Rom 12:8or he who exhorts, to his exhorting: he who gives, let him do it with liberality; he who rules, with diligence; he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness.
• 1 Th 4:18Therefore comfort one another with these words.
• Eph 4:12–16for the perfecting of the saints, to the work of serving, to the building up of the body of Christ;
• Acts 13:15After 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.”
• 1 Cor 8:1Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.
• 1 Cor 14:17For you most certainly give thanks well, but the other person is not built up.
• 1 Tim 6:2Those 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.
• Heb 13:22But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.
• Titus 2:15Say these things and exhort and reprove with all authority. Let no man despise you.
• 2 Th 3:12Now those who are that way, we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.

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