1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another, and try to build up one another’s characters, as indeed you are doing.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10that, whether we are still watching or have fallen asleep, we may live with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each of us please our neighbor for our neighbor’s good, to help in the building up of their character.
1 Corinthians 10:23Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable! Yes, but everything does not build up character.
1 Corinthians 14:12And so with you; since you are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Have you all this time been fancying that it is to you that we are making our defense? No, it is in the sight of God, and in union with Christ, that we are speaking. And all this, dear friends, is to build up your characters;
Ephesians 4:16For from him the whole body, closely joined and knit together by the contact of every part with the source of its life, derives its power to grow, in proportion to the vigour of each individual part; and so is being built up in a spirit of love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10and indeed you do act in this spirit towards all his people throughout Macedonia. Yet, friends, we beg you to do even 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 →