1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
1 Corinthians 10:23“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is edifying.
1 Corinthians 14:12It is the same with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, strive to excel in gifts that build up the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do you still think that we are making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.
Ephesians 4:16From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
1 Thessalonians 4:10And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel 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 →