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Example sentences for "edify"

Lexicographically close words:
edificios; edifie; edified; edifies; edifieth; edifying; ediles; edilie; edin; eding
  1. Page, and is conducted on principles well calculated to regulate, illumine, and edify the youths who mar and make empires at it.

  2. For this cause I write to you, that my sufferings may glorify my royal King, and edify His Church in Ireland.

  3. Nothing grieveth me, but that I eat my feasts my lone, and that I cannot edify His saints.

  4. That is, that by our conduct and behaviour we should edify our neighbours, and give them good example by our actions.

  5. For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do.

  6. The brethren are not to read or chant in order, but only those who edify their hearers.

  7. And no one shall presume to sing or read unless he can fulfil that office in such a way as to edify the hearers.

  8. He is one of those who can edify without being mournful, and make hours pass gaily without dissipation.

  9. The apostle considered that gift most desirable by which men might most edify one another.

  10. You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much.

  11. Beattie's preaching and his whole pastorate will soon become another illustration of the truth that it is not gifts but graces in a minister that will in the long-run truly edify the body of Christ.

  12. He did not pronounce windy orations about things that did not concern or edify them.

  13. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.

  14. So also the present exertion of one, is able to correct and make up not only his past mistakes and deficits; but also to edify upon his rugged hut of old.

  15. Though you are unlike others, in the greater enlightenment of your understanding; yet my lecture will equally edify your knowledge, as that of the less enlightened men than yourself.

  16. But most commonly they were such as might edify but could not delight.

  17. He bids them not be solicitous to speak, but to live well, and to edify others by their actions; and recommends himself and his widow-church of Antioch to their prayers.

  18. But further: If preaching in general be all old and beaten, and that they are already so well acquainted with it, more shame and guilt to them who so little edify by it.

  19. I prefer the town, to edify the people in godliness, and bestow upon them my holy wares and rescue them from the devil's grasp, as I have sworn to the father of all Christendom in Rome.

  20. But yet we hope, you will not think that we have any other intention than to edify you, to comfort and confirm you in our Lord, and therefore, we shall not make any more lengthened excuses on that account.

  21. Christian manner, and to edify the world by our example?

  22. Wherefore exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.

  23. Let us therefore pursue the things of peace and those which edify one another.

  24. They met, once a week, in private houses to pray, to read the Scriptures, and to edify each other.

  25. If a man comes down straight from the mount to speak to those who have just come from the same place, he must be in a state to edify and they to be edified.

  26. But if they pray habitually in the closet, they will edify out of it.

  27. A very illiterate person could win my heart if I knew he truly loved the Lord Jesus, no matter how clumsily he expressed that love; and his prayers would edify me.

  28. In an ecstatic state, men are incapable of edifying others: we shall presently see how far they can edify themselves.

  29. How did he who spoke with a tongue edify himself?

  30. Paul clearly states that he does not edify the church (vv.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "edify" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advance; ameliorate; amend; better; boost; catechize; civilize; demonstrate; direct; discipline; edify; educate; elevate; emend; enhance; enlighten; enrich; fatten; favor; forward; ground; guide; illuminate; improve; inform; instruct; irradiate; lard; lift; meliorate; mend; nurture; promote; raise; refine; reform; school; show; socialize; teach; train; transfigure; transform; upgrade; uplift