1 Thessalonians 5:11
For which cause comfort one another; and edify one another, as you also do.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 watch or sleep, we may live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let every one of you please his neighbour unto good, to edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawful for me, but all things do not edify.
1 Corinthians 14:12So you also, forasmuch as you are zealous of spirits, seek to abound unto the edifying of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Of old, think you that we excuse ourselves to you? We speak before God in Christ; but all things, my dearly beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:16From whom the whole body, being compacted and fitly joined together, by what every joint supplieth, according to the operation in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in charity.
1 Thessalonians 4:10For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia. But we entreat you, brethren, that you 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 →