1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore encourage each other, and edify one the other, as also ye do.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 should live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor, for his good, to edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawful, but not all things are expedient; all things are lawful, but not all things edify.
1 Corinthians 14:12So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound in them to the edification of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do ye again suppose that we are excusing ourselves to you[12:19]? Before God in Christ we speak; and all, beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:16from whom all the body, fitly framed together and compacted by means of every joint of the supply, according to the working in the measure of each single part, effects the increase of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10For indeed ye do it, toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we beseech you, brethren, to abound yet 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 →