1 Thessalonians 5:11
So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each one of us try to make his neighbor happy for his good, unto his upbuilding.
1 Corinthians 10:23"All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.
1 Corinthians 14:12So also in your case, since you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them for the upbuilding of the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do you think that all this time I am defending myself to you? It is before the presence of God that I am speaking in Christ; and all, beloved, for your upbuilding.
Ephesians 4:16From him the whole body (knit together and compacted by all its joints) makes continual growth of the body so as to build itself up in love, through the energy of his bounteous provision, according to the need of each several part.
1 Thessalonians 4:10As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this 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 →