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How to use edify in a sentence

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He must inspire, exhort, sermonize, edify, or warn, resort to pulpitry in general.
Is it my chief design, in choosing my subject, and composing my sermon, to edify the souls of men?
Note that the early church's priorities were to worship God and to edify the brethren.
Let the one in books that speak the truth edify religious men, and the other in lying fables delight impure demons.
Some are called to sow, others to reap some are eminently qualified to awaken sinners, others to edify saints.
I hope you will speak only beautiful words and words of faith that can edify others.
Hagiographies have been written from the 2nd century ad to instruct and edify readers and glorify the saints.
Remember, I don't write all my inane prattle here for personal or financial benefit, but merely to try and lighten the dark corners of your souls, and edify your weary minds.
And our elder members continue to edify us by their fidelity, their faith, their interest in the mission, and often by their work.
That being said, a State still has the political responsibility of doing everything it can to edify its citizens.
At some point of time, for sacred art to be able to edify souls, it needs to be really art, and really sacred.
Finally, our country needs good media to edify young citizens and encourage them to acquire wisdom.
Both disciplines understood their purpose to be the evocation and presentation of intended affections, thereby to persuade and to edify the listener.
As we pray for others, preach, teach the Word and share words of edification under the Holy Spirit's anointing, we are life-giving ministers who will bless and edify others.
Wisdom does not cancel out the Torah, nor does it contradict the Prophets: it operates at a different level where neither the Torah nor the lessons of history are needed to edify the reader.
The goal was still to edify and to promote virtuous conduct, but it seemed desirable to propose models of behaviour by which the faithful could recognize situations and emotions with which they were familiar.
Religious programmes: programmes based on different forms of religious service or similarly inspirational programmes intended to edify the audience.
The local church is a group of people who are born again, baptized, and organized in order to glorify God, edify one another and proclaim the gospel.
If you want it to gradually edify everybody in your house, you have to hang it up in a very visible place, and explain to others what it should remind them of.
That they ought to edify one another by maintaining and promoting the knowledge of truth.
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Examples from Classical Literature
What shocks one part will edify the rest, Nor with one system can they all be blest.
He had no idea even now how bad matters were, nor did she care to edify him.
They may edify each other, they certainly have no power of edifying any one else.
He took up his abode outside the town, and continued to astonish and edify the peasants who came into Lecce to market.
But your mirth-makers, can you say they benefit the body or edify the soul?
Oh all you gallants, that hope to be saued by your cloathes, edify, edify.
It can edify the readers with the history of remarkable piety and virtue.
I do not suppose the situation my friend Mrs Rooke is in at present, will furnish much either to interest or edify me.
To edify each other by conference, prayer, and disputations.
You know I'm such a graceless dog that these religious aspects of such subjects don't edify me much.
Contains also remarks on terraces, which are expected to edify.
Its aim is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
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