1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage each other, and build ye up one by one, just as ye also are doing.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each of us please his neighbor for what is good toward edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are permitted for me, but not all things are expedient. All things are permitted for me, but not all things are constructive.
1 Corinthians 14:12So also ye, since ye are zealots of spirits, seek so that ye may excel for the edification of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Again, do ye think that we are making defense to you? In the sight of God we speak in Christ. But all things, beloved, are for your edification.
Ephesians 4:16from whom the whole body, joined together and united together through every connection of the supply, according to the working of each one part within a standard, makes the growth of the body for the construction of itself by love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10For ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11
Watchfulness and Sobriety. ( a. d. 51.) 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. On… Read the whole commentary →