edify

Preposition: of

• body: Like the joints and bands, the gifts of the Spirit for the edifying of the Body of Christ ( Eph.
• church: Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Object

• spectacle: Not an edifying spectacle, and all the stranger given Moore's confidence of an anti-war vote turning out for a pro-war candidate.
• church: Love for others, that's why he says ' he that prophesies edifies the church ' .
• other: The word of Christ is to dwell in us in order that we may be useful for edifying others.
• tale: They were meant to be edifying tales for infants and immature grown ups.
• experience: To move, affect and stir the passions is the main aim of the baroque with the ultimate goal of an edifying experience.
• sight: It's not an edifying sight, particularly spread over seven years.

Preposition: for

everyone: We are to do only what is edifying for everyone.

Modifying Another Word

• particularly: I do not find that kind of working in an audit report particularly edifying.
• very: For example the Acta of many of the early martyrs survive intact and are very edifying and very moving.
• not: The prospect of that victory being sacrificed now is not edifying to the General Staff, who have a strong say in Turkish politics.
• much: His sermons are well attended; and his parishioners are as much edified by his good example as by his excellent discourses.
• hardly: For the rest of us, being around those in a drug state is hardly edifying.
• spiritually: Ironically, he seems to applaud their ' duplicity because it will, his characters believe, be spiritually edifying.