1 Thessalonians 5:11

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.

King James Version (1611)
Wherefore, comfort your selues together, and edifie one another, euen as also ye doe.

King James Version
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

English Standard Version
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, just as you also are doing.

New Century Version
So encourage each other and give each other strength, just as you are doing now.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Therefore encourage one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore, comfort one another and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.

Contemporary English Version
That's why you must encourage and help each other, just as you are already doing.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore, encourage each other, and build each other up — just as you are doing.

Darby Translation
Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.

Easy-to-Read Version
So encourage each other and help each other grow stronger in faith, just as you are already doing.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.

George Lamsa Translation
Wherefore comfort one another and edify one another, even as also you do.

Good News Translation
And so encourage one another and help one another, just as you are now doing.

Lexham English Bible
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as indeed you are doing.

Literal Translation
Therefore, encourage one another, and build up one another, as you indeed do.

Amplified Bible
Therefore encourage and comfort one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.

American Standard Version
Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Bible in Basic English
So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.

Hebrew Names Version
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

International Standard Version
So then, encourage one another and build each other up, as you are doing.1 Thessalonians 4:18;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Wherefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also you do.

Murdock Translation
Therefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye have done.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Wherefore comfort your selues together, and edifie euery one another, euen as ye do.

English Revised Version
Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

World English Bible
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Wherefore comfort one another and edify one another, as also ye do.

Weymouth's New Testament
Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For which thing comforte ye togidere, and edefie ye ech other, as ye doon.

Update Bible Version
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also you do.

Webster's Bible Translation
Wherefore, comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

New English Translation
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.

New King James Version
Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

New Living Translation
So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

New Life Bible
So comfort each other and make each other strong as you are already doing.

New Revised Standard
Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wherefore be consoling one another, and building up, each the other, - even as ye are also doing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do.

Revised Standard Version
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Wherfore comforte youre selves togedder and edifie one another even as ye do.

Young's Literal Translation
wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wherfore comforte youre selues together, and edifye one another, euen as ye do.

Mace New Testament (1729)
wherefore comfort and edify one another, as you have hitherto done.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Encourage each other and give each other a hand, just like you've been doing.

Contextual Overview

¹²And now, friends, we ask you to honor those leaders who work so hard for you, who have been given the responsibility of urging and guiding you along in your obedience. Overwhelm them with appreciation and love! Get along among yourselves, each of you doing your part. Our counsel is that you warn the freeloaders to get a move on. Gently encourage the stragglers, and reach out for the exhausted, pulling them to their feet. Be patient with each person, attentive to individual needs. And be careful that when you get on each other's nerves you don't snap at each other. Look for the best in each other, and always do your best to bring it out. Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. Don't suppress the Spirit, and don't stifle those who have a word from the Master. On the other hand, don't be gullible. Check out everything, and keep only what's good. Throw out anything tainted with evil. May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he'll do it! Friends, keep up your prayers for us. Greet all the followers of Jesus there with a holy embrace. And make sure this letter gets read to all the brothers and sisters. Don't leave anyone out. The amazing grace of Jesus Christ be with you! ¹⁴ I don't think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master's coming can't be posted on our calendars. He won't call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody's walking around complacently, congratulating each other—"We've sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!"—suddenly everything will fall apart. It's going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman. But friends, you're not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this? You're sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let's keep our eyes open and be smart. People sleep at night and get drunk at night. But not us! Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it. Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation. God didn't set us up for an angry rejection but for salvation by our Master, Jesus Christ. He died for us, a death that triggered life. Whether we're awake with the living or asleep with the dead, we're alive with him! So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you'll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you're already doing this; just keep on doing it. And now, friends, we ask you to honor those leaders who work so hard for you, who have been given the responsibility of urging and guiding you along in your obedience. Overwhelm them with appreciation and love! Get along among yourselves, each of you doing your part. Our counsel is that you warn the freeloaders to get a move on. Gently encourage the stragglers, and reach out for the exhausted, pulling them to their feet. Be patient with each person, attentive to individual needs. And be careful that when you get on each other's nerves you don't snap at each other. Look for the best in each other, and always do your best to bring it out. Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. Don't suppress the Spirit, and don't stifle those who have a word from the Master. On the other hand, don't be gullible. Check out everything, and keep only what's good. Throw out anything tainted with evil. May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together—spirit, soul, and body—and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he'll do it! Friends, keep up your prayers for us. Greet all the followers of Jesus there with a holy embrace. And make sure this letter gets read to all the brothers and sisters. Don't leave anyone out. The amazing grace of Jesus Christ be with you! ¹⁵ I don't think, friends, that I need to deal with the question of when all this is going to happen. You know as well as I that the day of the Master's coming can't be posted on our calendars. He won't call ahead and make an appointment any more than a burglar would. About the time everybody's walking around complacently, congratulating each other—"We've sure got it made! Now we can take it easy!"—suddenly everything will fall apart. It's going to come as suddenly and inescapably as birth pangs to a pregnant woman. But friends, you're not in the dark, so how could you be taken off guard by any of this? You're sons of Light, daughters of Day. We live under wide open skies and know where we stand. So let's not sleepwalk through life like those others. Let's keep our eyes open and be smart. People sleep at night and get drunk at night. But not us! Since we're creatures of Day, let's act like it. Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation. God didn't set us up for an angry rejection but for salvation by our Master, Jesus Christ. He died for us, a death that triggered life. Whether we're awake with the living or asleep with the dead, we're alive with him! So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you'll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you're already doing this; just keep on doing it. And now, friends, we ask you to honor those leaders who work so hard for you, who have been given the responsibility of urging and guiding you along in your obedience. Overwhelm them with appreciation and love! Get along among yourselves, each of you doing your part. Our counsel is that you warn the freeloaders to get a move on. Gently encourage the stragglers, and reach out for the exhausted, pulling them to their feet. Be patient with each person, attentive to individual needs. And be careful that when you get on each other's nerves you don't snap at each other. Look for the best in each other, and always do your best to bring it out.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Wherefore: 1 Thessalonians 4:18

comfort: or, exhort, Hebrews 3:13, Hebrews 10:25

and edify: Romans 14:19, Romans 15:2, 1 Corinthians 10:23, 1 Corinthians 14:5, 1 Corinthians 14:12, 1 Corinthians 14:29, 2 Corinthians 12:19, Ephesians 4:12, Ephesians 4:16, Ephesians 4:29, 1 Timothy 1:4, Jude 1:20

even: 1 Thessalonians 4:10, Romans 15:14, 2 Peter 1:12

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 4:10 - if Malachi 3:16 - spake John 11:19 - to comfort John 11:28 - and called Acts 9:31 - were edified Acts 20:12 - were 1 Corinthians 14:3 - edification 1 Corinthians 14:26 - Let 1 Corinthians 14:31 - all may be 2 Corinthians 1:4 - that Colossians 3:16 - teaching Colossians 4:8 - and comfort 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - General Hebrews 10:24 - consider

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore comfort yourselves together,.... Either with the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, the second coming of Christ, and the thoughts of being for ever with him, and one another, and so may be a repetition of the advice in 1 Thessalonians 4:18 or with this consideration, that they were not in a state of darkness, ignorance, and infidelity, but were children of the light, and of the day, being called out of darkness into marvellous light, and should enjoy the light of life; and with the doctrine of predestination, they being appointed not to that wrath they were deserving of, but to be possessed of salvation by Jesus Christ, of which they could never fail, since the purpose of God according to election always stands sure, not upon the foot of works, but upon his own sovereign and unchangeable grace; or with the doctrine of Christ's sufferings and death, in their room and stead, whereby the law was fulfilled, justice satisfied, their sins atoned for, pardon procured, an everlasting righteousness brought in, and their salvation fully accomplished, things the apostle had spoken of in the context: the words will bear to be rendered, "exhort one another"; that is, not to sleep, as do others, or indulge themselves in sin and sloth; but to be sober, and upon their watch and guard, and in a posture of defence against the enemy; to put on the whole armour of God, and particularly the plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation:

and edify one another; by praying together, conversing with each other about the doctrines of the Gospel, and the dealings of God with their souls; abstaining from all corrupt communication, which has a tendency to hurt each other's principles or practices, or to stir up wrath and contention; attending only to those things which are for the use of edifying, whereby their souls might be more and more built upon Christ, and their most holy faith; and be a rising edifice, and grow up unto an holy temple in the Lord, and for an habitation of God through the Spirit:

even as also ye do; which is said in their commendation, and not through flattery, but to encourage them to go on in this way; and from whence it may be observed, that mutual consolation, exhortation, and edification, are things the saints should be stirred up to frequently, even though they are regarded by them, and much more then should these be pressed upon them who are careless and negligent of them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wherefore comfort yourselves - notes, 1 Thessalonians 4:18.

And edify one another - Strive to build up each other, or to establish each other in the faith by these truths; notes, Romans 14:19.

Even as also ye do - Continue to do it. Let nothing intervene to disturb the harmony and consolation which you have been accustomed to derive from these high and holy doctrines.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. Comfort - one another — Rest assured that, in all times and circumstances, it shall be well with the righteous; let every man lay this to heart; and with this consideration comfort and edify each other in all trials and difficulties.