1 Thessalonians 5:11 - New Revised Standard Version Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. American Standard Version (1901) Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do. Common English Bible So continue encouraging each other and building each other up, just like you are doing already. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For which cause comfort one another; and edify one another, as you also do. |
I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
Each of us must please our neighbor for the good purpose of building up the neighbor.
“All things are lawful,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful,” but not all things build up.
So with yourselves; since you are eager for spiritual gifts, strive to excel in them for building up the church.
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
Now I would like all of you to speak in tongues, but even more to prophesy. One who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless someone interprets, so that the church may be built up.
Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves before you? We are speaking in Christ before God. Everything we do, beloved, is for the sake of building you up.
to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body's growth in building itself up in love.
Let no evil talk come out of your mouths, but only what is useful for building up, as there is need, so that your words may give grace to those who hear.
and indeed you do love all the brothers and sisters throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, beloved, to do so more and more,
and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than the divine training that is known by faith.
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” so that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
Therefore I intend to keep on reminding you of these things, though you know them already and are established in the truth that has come to you.
But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit;