1 Thessalonians 5:11
Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10who died for us, so that, whether we watch, or whether we sleep, we may live in union with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Each one of you should please his neighbor unto good, for edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23All is lawful to me, but not all is edifying.
1 Corinthians 14:12So it is with you also. And since you are zealous for what is spiritual, seek the edification of the Church, so that you may abound.
2 Corinthians 12:19Have you ever thought that we should explain ourselves to you? We speak in the sight of God, in Christ. But all things, most beloved, are for your edification.
Ephesians 4:16For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.
1 Thessalonians 4:10For indeed, you act in this way with all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we petition you, brothers, so that you may abound all the 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 →