1 Thessalonians 5:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

1 Thessalonians 5:11 —

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Cross-References

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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.
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 11-15)

In these words the apostle exhorts the Thessalonians to several duties. I. Towards those who were nearly related one to another. Such should comfort themselves, or exhort one another, and edify one another, 1 Thess. 5:11. 1. They must comfort or exhort themselves and one another; for the original word may be rendered both these ways. And we may observe, As those are most able and likely to comfort…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 11)

11. comfort yourselves--Greek, “one another.” Here he reverts to the same consolatory strain as in 1Th 4:18. edify one another--rather as Greek, “edify (ye) the one the other”; “edify,” literally, “build up,” namely, in faith, hope, and love, by discoursing together on such edifying topics as the Lord’s coming, and the glory of the saints (Mal 3:16).