Build each other up (οικοδομειτε εις τον ενα). Literally, build ye, one the one (εις nominative in partitive apposition with unexp…

Wherefore comfort yourselves. (See Barnes on 1 Thessalonians 4:18).

And edify one another. Strive to build up …

Comfort.—Rightly translated. St. Paul is here revisiting the thought of 1 Thessalonians 4:18. They are to comfort one …

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another…

With such a guarantee, the Thessalonians are now equipped to “encourage one another and build each other up.” As in 4:18, “encourage” (GK 4151) has…

Wherefore comfort yourselves together
Either with the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, the second coming of…

Most of humankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them correctly, because they…

In what he had written before, Paul corrected the The alonians in matters that needed improvement, and now he begins to instruct them about the fut…