1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore, comfort one another, and build one another up, just as you are doing.
Revised King James New Testament
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 live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good, to edify him.
1 Corinthians 10:23All things are lawful for me, but not all things are beneficial: all things are lawful for me, but not all things are constructive.
1 Corinthians 14:12So with you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in edifying the church.
2 Corinthians 12:19All this time have you been thinking that we are defending ourselves to you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your strengthening.
Ephesians 4:16From whom the whole body, fitted and joined together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of every part, causes the body to grow, for the building up of itself in love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10And indeed you do love all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but we urge you, brethren, that you do so 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 →