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1 Corinthians 14 Bible study: Build each other up

1 Corinthians 14 keeps coming back to building up: "for their edification" (14:3), "that the assembly may be built up" (14:5), "the building up of the assembly" (14:12), and "Let all things be done to build each other up." (14:26). In the Greek, one noun stands behind each. The chapter ends, "Let all things be done decently and in order." (14:40).

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“Let all things be done decently and in order.”
1 Corinthians 14:40 · World English Bible

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“1 Corinthians 14:26 says to let all things be done to build each other up.”

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Follow after love

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The chapter opens, "Follow after love and earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy." (14:1). Favor's introduction to 1 Corinthians begins a new part of the letter here, Build each other up, and it runs to the chapter's last verse. The next verses speak of the one who speaks in another language and the one who prophesies, in their own words: "For he who speaks in another language speaks not to men, but to God, for no one understands, but in the Spirit he speaks mysteries." (14:2), and "But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, exhortation, and consolation." (14:3) (tap consolation). "He who speaks in another language edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the assembly." (14:4). "Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but even more that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up." (14:5). Through the whole chapter, these notes say no more about speaking in another language, interpreting or prophesying than the chapter's own words, and apply them to no assembly or person today.

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The Greek word behind it

οἰκοδομήoikodomesay oy-kod-om-AY

Strong's: "architecture, i.e. (concretely) a structure; figuratively, confirmation", and among its English words "edify(-ication, -ing)". "Let all things be done to build each other up." (14:26): behind build … up is this noun. It is behind edification in 14:3, built up in 14:5 and building up in 14:12 too. 1 Corinthians has it five times, four of them in this chapter (counted in RP2018); the other is "You are God’s farming, God’s building." (3:9). Favor's Romans 14 studies it in "things by which we may build one another up" (Romans 14:19).

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1 Corinthians 14 Bible study questions

  1. 1"Follow after love" (14:1). What would following after love look like for you this week?
  2. 2"yet in malice be babies" (14:20). What would that look like for you this week?
  3. 3"for God is not a God of confusion but of peace" (14:33). Where would you most like God's peace in place of confusion this week?

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Last reviewed October 8, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home