1 Thessalonians 5:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Wherefore comforta yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. ”

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Albert 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...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(6) Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. (6) We must not only watch ourselves, but we are also bound to stir up, and to strengthen and encourage one anot...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul's Warning to the Christians to be Prepared for the Parousia. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 . as a thief in the night: cf. the words of Jesus ( Matthew 24:43 ). Throughout this paragraph the sudden...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

comfort . App-134. Same as in 1 Thessalonians 4:18 . also ye do . ye are doing also.
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

11 Exhort. It is the same word that we had in the close of the preceding chapter, and which we rendered comfort, because the context required it, and the same would not suit ill with this p...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. Comfort - one another - Rest assured that, in all times and circumstances, it shall be well with the righteous; let e...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Wherefore comfort yourselves together,— He had used this expression ch. 1 Thessalonians 4:18 . All that he has said since, concerning the time of Christ's coming, and the necessity of preparing fo...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. Comfort yourselves, х alleelous ( G240 )] - "one another." Here he reverts to consolation, as in 1 Thess...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Need of Watchfulness. Final Injunctions 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the time of the Advent ( 2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3-4 ).
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Comfort. — Rightly translated. St. Paul is here catching up once more the thought of 1 Thessalonians 4:18 . They are to comfort one another about their communion with the dead who live in Christ;...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 12 THE DAY OF THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 (R.V.) THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking, on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle ad...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ready for “the Day of the Lord” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference to...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son ar...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 s...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. Ver. 11. Comfort yourselves together ] This he subjoins as a singular help to the practice of the former points o...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For they that sleep, sleep in the night , &c. Night is the time for sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Various Exhortations; Duty towards Fellow-Christians. A. D. 51. 11 Wherefore comfort yoursel...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These words are an exhortation to the whole church of Thessalonica, to comfort and edify one another. Though the ministry is appointed to this by especial office, yet private Christians are to practi...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘Wherefore exhort (or strengthen by coming alongside) one another, and build each other up, even as also you do.' The fact of the coming of Christ and the resurrection and transformation of the peop...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Times and seasons. —The one is the even, continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we may represent as epochs. Our Lor...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:9-15 I. This passage, 1 Thessalonians 5:9-15 , has its interest and value as showing us that the earliest and the latest of the Pauline Epistles are all at one in regard to the...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 . But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night....
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Of the times and seaso n s, ye have no need that I write to you. Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the ch...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief. So in moder...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instr...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 10:23 ; 1 Corinthians 14:12 ; 1 Corinthians 14:29 ; 1 Corinthians 14:5 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:10 ; 1 Thessalonians 4:18 ; 1 Timothy 1:4 ; 2 Corinthians 12:19 ; 2 Peter 1:12 ; Eph...
1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Lord's Coming 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is true that the Lord's Coming is near, and that at any moment we...

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:11 - Wells of Living Water Commentary