What Does 1 Corinthians 14:26 Mean in the King James?
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
“Edifying” means house-building: every voice in the gathering becomes material for a shared dwelling.
THE MEANING
When you gather, what each person brings has a place within one shared purpose: strengthening the whole. A song, teaching, tongue, revelation, or interpretation finds its measure in what it builds among you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the belief that a gathering succeeds when each person displays what they can do; its measure is what the contributions build together.
THE ROOT
οἰκοδομή
oikodomē
GROWS FROM
οἰκοδομ- (oikos, “house” + domeō, “build”)
To build a house; by extension, building up.
The word rendered “edifying” carries the image of constructing a dwelling. The many forms of expression named in the verse become parts of one structure when they strengthen the gathering.
ALSO GROWS
oikodomeō: To build; to build up or edify.
οἰκοδομέω
The related verb makes the image active: a contribution can help build up the people gathered.
oikodomos: Builder.
οἰκοδόμος
The same word family names the builder, linking the gathering’s building-up to the work of constructing a house.
THE PATTERN
What each person brings takes shape as a shared dwelling when it supports the whole.
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:THE THREAD
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.“Edifying” here and “the edifying” in Ephesians come from the same Greek word family, οἰκοδομ- (oikodom-, house-building). Ephesians opens the image further: every part supplies something, and the whole grows as it builds itself up in love.
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