1 Thessalonians 5:11
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
נָחַם
nâcham
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavora...
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
יַחַד
yachad
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
οἰκοδομή
oikodomḗ
architecture, i.e. (concretely) a structure; figuratively, confirmation
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
אַחֵר
ʼachêr
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
Key Terms in This Verse
οἰκοδομή oikodomḗ
architecture, i.e. (concretely) a structure; figuratively, confirmation
Study G3619 →נָחַם nâcham
properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself)
Study H5162 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →Cross References
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.
Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the ...
All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.
I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
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