1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or sleep, we may live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbour with a view to what is good, to edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawful, but all are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all do not edify.
1 Corinthians 14:12Thus *ye* also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.
2 Corinthians 12:19Ye have long been supposing that we excuse ourselves to you: we speak before God in Christ; and all things, beloved, for your building up.
Ephesians 4:16from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to [the] working in [its] measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound 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 →