1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore, exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor in that which is good for his edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23All meats are lawful for me; but all are not profitable; all are lawful, but all do not edify.
1 Corinthians 14:12So, also, do you, since you greatly desire spiritual gifts, seek to excel to the building up of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do you think again that we offer you a defense of ourselves? We speak all these things before God in Christ, beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:16from whom the whole body, compactly fitted together, and united by every helping joint, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body, for the building up of itself in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10and indeed you do this to all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that you abound in love more and 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 →