1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.
American Standard 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, 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 that which is good, unto edifying.
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 unto the edifying of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.
Ephesians 4:16from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and 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 →