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Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
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The Source of Our Comfort
Commentators explain that the command to "comfort" one another is not a call for generic positivity. It's specifically rooted in the profound truths Paul just shared: the hope of the resurrection (4:18), our destiny for salvation instead of wrath (5:9), and the reality of Christ's death for us (5:10). Our encouragement to others should be filled with this specific gospel hope.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Wherefore comfort yourselves. (See Barnes on 1 Thessalonians 4:18).
And edify one another. Strive to build up …
Build each other up (οικοδομειτε εις τον ενα). Literally, build ye, one the one (εις nominative in partitive apposition with unexp…
19th Century
Anglican
Comfort.—Rightly translated. St. Paul is here revisiting the thought of 1 Thessalonians 4:18. They are to comfort one …
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Baptist
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Wherefore comfort yourselves together Either with the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, the second coming of…
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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…
13th Century
Catholic
In what he had written before, Paul corrected the Thessalonians in matters that needed improvement, and now he begins to instruct them about the fu…
