1 Thessalonians 5:11
Wherefore, encourage one another, and edify one another, as indeed ye are doing.
Noyes Bible
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 together live with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each one of us please his neighbor, to promote what is good, for edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things are lawful, but all things are not edifying.
1 Corinthians 14:12So also ye, since ye are eager to possess spiritual gifts, be earnest to abound in them to the edification of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Have ye been thinking this long time that we are defending ourselves to you? It is before God in Christ that we are speaking; but all things, beloved, for your edification.
Ephesians 4:16from whom the whole body, well put together and compacted by means of every supplying joint, is, according to the working of each part in its proportion, building itself up in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to abound in love 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 →