1 Thessalonians 5:11 · KJV
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. {comfort: or, exhort}”
— 1 Thessalonians 5:11
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
1 Thessalonians 5 — Context
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. {comfort: or, exhort}
12And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
13And to esteem them very highly in love for their work's sake. {And} be at peace among yourselves.
Cross References
Ephesians 4:29
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. {to...: or, to edify profitably}
Romans 15:2
Let every one of us please {his} neighbour for {his} good to edification.
Hebrews 10:25
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some {is}; but exhorting {one another}: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
1 Thessalonians 4:18
Wherefore comfort one another with these words. {comfort: or, exhort}
Romans 14:19
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
1 Corinthians 14:12
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual {gifts}, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. {of spiritual gifts: Gr. of spirits}
Ephesians 4:12
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
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