Showing posts with label iron. Show all posts
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Friday, October 14, 2022

Arming The Spiritual Warrior -- Sharpening Iron

 



1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.

*Strong's Exhaustive Concordance #3870
Encourage: (1) to call to one's side (2) believers offering evidence that will stand up in God's court (3) legal advocate (4) beg, entreat, comfort, console, exhort

Encourage One Another
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

*Strong's Exhaustive Concordance #3619
Edify/Edification: (1) the act of building (2) spiritual advancement (3) constructive criticism and instruction that builds a person up to be the suitable dwelling place of God, i.e. where the Lord is "at home."

Build One Another Up
Proverbs 27:17
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Ephesians 4:29
Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.
Romans 14:19
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
1 Corinthians  14:3
But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort.