1 Thessalonians 5:11 Cross References - MSB

¹¹ Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.

¹⁹ So then, let us pursue what leads to peace and to mutual edification.

² Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

¹⁴ I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, brimming with knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

²³ “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is edifying.

⁵ I wish that all of you could speak in tongues, but I would rather have you prophesy. For he who prophesies is greater than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets so that the church may be edified.

¹² It is the same with you. Since you are eager to have spiritual gifts, strive to excel in gifts that build up the church.

²⁹ Two or three prophets should speak, and the others should weigh carefully what is said.

¹⁹ Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up.

¹² to equip the saints for works of ministry and to build up the body of Christ,

¹⁶ From Him the whole body, fitted and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.

²⁹ Let no unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building up the one in need and bringing grace to those who listen.

¹⁰ And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words.

⁴ or devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculation rather than the stewardship of God’s work, which is by faith.

¹³ But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.

²⁵ Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

¹² Therefore I will not neglect to remind you of these things, even though you know them and are established in the truth you now have.

²⁰ But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,