The Holy Spirit gives you wisdom to be spiritually profitable and edifying to others.

The Holy Spirit gives you wisdom to be spiritually profitable and edifying to others.

“All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful [sumphero]; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify [oikodomeo].” (1Cor 10:23)

“rooted and built up [epoikodomeo] in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.” (Col 2:7)

“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit [sumphero] of all” (1Cor 12:7)

“Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ…But you, beloved, building [epoikodomeo=to build upon] yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit” (Jude 1:1,20)

“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up [epoikodomeo] and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)

“Therefore comfort each other and edify [oikodomeo] one another, just as you also are doing.” (1Thes 5:11)

“you also, as living stones, are being built up [oikodomeo] a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.” (1Pet 2:5)

“But he who prophesies [propheteuo] speaks edification [oikodome] and exhortation [paraklesis] and comfort [paramuthia] to men.” (1Cor 14:3)

“Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification [oikodome] of the church that you seek to excel [perisseuo].” (1Cor 14:12)

“from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working [energeia] by which every part does its share, causes growth [auxesis] of the body for the edifying [oikodome] of itself in love.” (Eph 4:16)

“The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.” (Isa 11:2)

“And the Child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.” (Lk 2:40)

“Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business” (Acts 6:3)

“And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power” (1Cor 2:4)

“these things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.” (1Cor 2:13)

“that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him” (Eph 1:17)

“For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding” (Col 1:9)

“But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.” (Jm 3:17)

“All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful [sumphero]. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power [exousiazo=authority] of any.” (1Cor 6:12)

“just as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit [sumphero], but the profit of many, that they may be saved.” (1Cor 10:33)

“And He said to them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship [kurieuo] over them, and those who exercise authority [exousiazo] over them are called benefactors.” (Lk 22:25)

“For sin shall not have dominion [kurieuo] over you, for you are not under law but under grace.” (Rom 6:14)

“The wife does not have authority [exousiazo] over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise the husband does not have authority [exousiazo] over his own body, but the wife does.” (1Cor 7:4)

Reading: Isa 40-42; 1Cor 10