1 Thessalonians 5:11
So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong.
1 Corinthians 10:23We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.
1 Corinthians 14:12So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.
Ephesians 4:16Through whom all the body, being rightly formed and united together, by the full working of every part, is increased to the building up of itself in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still 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 →