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1 Thessalonians 5:11

James Moffatt - New Testament

Encourage one another, therefore, and let each edify the other — as indeed you are doing.

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Let no bad word pass your lips, but only such speech as is good for edification, as occasion may require, words that are gracious and a means of grace to those who hear them.

not ceasing to meet together, as is the habit of some, but admonishing one another, all the more so, as you see the Day coming near.

Each of us must please his neighbour, doing him good by building up his faith.

Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened.

Now then, encourage one another with these words.

Peace, then, and the building up of each other, these are what we must aim at.

So with yourselves; since your heart is set on possessing 'spirits,' make the edification of the church your aim in this desire to excel.

for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,

But do you, beloved, build up yourselves on your most holy faith and pray in the holy Spirit,

as the entire Body is welded together and compacted by every joint with which it is supplied, the due activity of each part enables the Body to grow and build itself up in love.

'All things are lawful'? Yes, but not all are good for us. 'All things are lawful'? Yes, but not all are edifying.

Hence I mean to keep on reminding you of this, although you are aware of it and are fixed in the Truth as it is;

You think all this time I am defending myself to you? No, I am speaking in Christ before the presence of God, and speaking every word, beloved, in order to build you up.

Let only two or three prophets speak, while the rest exercise their judgment upon what is said.

Personally I am quite certain, my brothers, that even as it is you have ample goodness of heart, you are filled with knowledge of every kind, and you are well able to give advice to one another.

and studying myths and interminable genealogies; such studies bear upon speculations rather than on the divine order which belongs to faith.

as indeed is your practice towards all the brothers throughout all Macedonia. We beseech you, brothers, to excel in this more and more;

Now I would like you all to speak with 'tongues,' but I would prefer you to prophesy. The man who prophesies is higher than the man who speaks with 'tongues' — unless indeed the latter interprets, so that the church may get edification.




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