1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
In Context
10who died on our behalf, so that whether we are awake or are sleeping we may share His Life.
Cross References
Romans 15:2Let each of us endeavour to please his fellow Christian, aiming at a blessing calculated to build him up.
1 Corinthians 10:23Everything is allowable, but not everything is profitable. Everything is allowable, but everything does not build others up.
1 Corinthians 14:12Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.
2 Corinthians 12:19You are imagining, all this time, that we are making our defense at your bar. In reality it is as in God's presence and in communion with Christ that we speak; but, dear friends, it is all with a view to your progress in goodness.
Ephesians 4:16Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another-- grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love.
1 Thessalonians 4:10and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. And we exhort you to 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 →