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edifying
1. (l) Our teaching and preaching should be edifying to the body of Christ (I Tim
2. use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers
3. decisions as to what was and what was not edifying for
4. The most any society can reasonably hope for is the edifying moral and principle examples of honest and forthright individuals whose unimpeachable conduct might otherwise influence our own standards of behavior
5. “For we have not received the gifts of God for ourselves only, or for to hide them; but for to bestow them unto the honoring of God and Christ and the edifying of the congregation, which is the body of Christ
6. Speaking the truth in love is what can help correct people in edifying ways
7. (Anyone who tries to correct outside of love can be attempting to release sinful garbage into your life, which is certainly not edifying, and therefore should be rejected)
8. Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying
9. ( The life of Moses is most edifying reading
10. It says: now let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but rather that which is good for the use of edifying - that it might what? Now you know this scripture, I want you to think about it - that it might? Minister grace
11. Now notice this: he said speak words that are good for edifying - notice this - that they may impart grace to the hearers
12. There cannot, therefore, be anything very important in this point, and every believer may use his liberty, and do what he finds edifying to himself without condemning others
13. edifying; and want of wisdom in application
14. thoughts on the good and edifying
15. The contemplation of virtuous happiness is at least as edifying for this lady as the contemplation of water from a cliff
16. It is possible that some of the worst offenders surround us, who notoriously suppress the free flow of edifying communication
17. Rumors abound about people who are alive with edifying communication, but really, they are dead to fruitful exchanges
18. Our inward softness, through the fruit of the spirit, “unmakes” the hardness that once was the barrier to edifying exchanges
19. Jennings' network is, after all, the one that bequeathed America such edifying television fare as NYPD Blue, the raucous police drama renowned for its raunchy language and for broadcasting the bare backsides of its lead thespians
20. Earlier, billions of “people” existed and created outer Worlds on the basis of primitive SFUURMM-Forms (formed thousands of years ago) concerning Adam and Eve, the history of Christianity based on the Old Testament, a collection of revelations about karma and “reincarnation of souls” adopted in Buddhism, interpretations of edifying stories and Sufic mystic experiences of Islam, religious teaching legends and tutorial traditions of other religions, or some other system of Information
21. To have a child share a Scripture verse or short prayer can be a greatly edifying practice for the children themselves and even for the adults
22. 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers
23. and welcome of the edifying light of the Soul
24. His writings, however, are always edifying and awakening
25. ly, the role of Cabinet Secretariat and the PMO remains far from edifying in that they too
26. It is exiting and edifying
27. For scores of years gone by, Monseigneur had squeezed it and wrung it, and had seldom graced it with his presence except for the pleasures of the chase--now, found in hunting the people; now, found in hunting the beasts, for whose preservation Monseigneur made edifying spaces of barbarous and barren wilderness
28. They will impose various public acts of penitence upon themselves with a beautiful and edifying effect; in fact you've nothing to be uneasy about
29. Perhaps by the time you return to Paris, I shall be quite a sober, staid father of a family! A most edifying representative I shall make of all the domestic virtues—don't you think so? But as regards your wish to visit our fine city, my dear count, I can only say that you may command me and mine to any extent you please
30. Sometimes their conversation was not at all edifying, for it consisted largely of bad language, which `Morpheus' assumed to be attributable to the fact that they were out of temper because they had to rise so early
31. They were there gathered together without distinction of social class (and a most edifying spectacle it was to see) in that simple fane beside the waves, after the storms of this weary world, kneeling before the feet of the immaculate, reciting the litany of Our Lady of Loreto, beseeching her to intercede for them, the old familiar words, holy Mary, holy virgin of virgins
32. “We’ve just spoken to him, and it’s not an edifying story
33. ” Rhett suggested “Caveat Emptorium,” assuring her that it would be a title something more edifying, she asked him to think of a title that would include the word most in keeping with the type of goods sold in the store
34. Among the sights of Europe, that of Rome has ever been held one of the most striking and in some respects edifying
35. When she made remarks to this edifying effect, she had a firm little frown on her brow, which yet did not hinder her face from looking benevolent, and her words which came forth like a procession were uttered in a fervid agreeable contralto
36. "Selina" received her with a pathetic affectionateness and a disposition to give edifying answers on the commonest topics, which could hardly have reference to an ordinary quarrel of which the most important consequence was a perturbation of Mr
37. die, that his end was not only touching but edifying
38. He imagined men such as he had himself been a fortnight ago, and he addressed an edifying exhortation to them
39. Pennzoil infused cash for 80 percent of the stock, thereby diluting existing shareholders (and edifying short sellers who managed to stay short), and paid off Hindman handsomely for not working
40. But all I can learn of their conclusions amounts to just this, that "Cato and Brister pulled wool"; which is about as edifying as the history of more famous schools of philosophy
41. “New-comers kept increasing the number of the plunderers, and it was indeed an edifying spectacle to see these men dying of hunger, and at the same time loaded with such quantities of treasure that they could move only with difficulty
42. In Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris an edifying and gratuitous spectacle was provided for the people in the Hôtel de Ville of Paris in the reign of Louis XI
43. Yet, in spite of these edifying memories, it would be difficult to explain the frivolity, absurdity and malice that were manifested beside the coffin of Father Zossima
44. Their children are sometimes congenital idiots, like the hero of our story; sometimes they are found in the dock at the Assizes, where they are generally acquitted by the jury for edifying motives; sometimes they distinguish themselves by one of those burning scandals that amaze the public and add another blot to the stained record of our age
45. Besides these there were two books with coloured pictures—one, extracts from a popular book of travels, published for juvenile reading, the other a collection of very light, edifying tales, for the most part about the days of chivalry, intended for Christmas presents or school reading
46. All human actions will then, of course, be tabulated according to these laws, mathematically, like tables of logarithms up to 108,000, and entered in an index; or, better still, there would be published certain edifying works of the nature of encyclopædic lexicons, in which everything will be so clearly calculated and explained that there will be no more incidents or adventures in the world
47. She said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying