1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye have done.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 might live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2But each of us should please his neighbor, in good things, as conducive to edification.
1 Corinthians 10:23Every thing is in my power; but every thing is not profitable. Every thing is in my power; but every thing doth not edify.
1 Corinthians 14:12So also ye, since ye are emulous of the gifts of the Spirit for the edification of the church, seek ye to excel.
2 Corinthians 12:19Do ye again suppose, that we would apologize to you? Before God, in the Messiah we speak: and all these things, my beloved, are for the sake of your edification.
Ephesians 4:16and from him it is, the whole body is framed together and compacted by all the junctures, according to the gift that is imparted by measure to each member, for the growth of the body; that his edifice may be perfected in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10Ye likewise do so, to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but I entreat you, my brethren, to be exuberant:
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 →