1 THESSALONIANS 5:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 3
“Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing — the paraenesis returns to the communal; mutual exhortation (parakaleo) and edification (oikodomeo) are the ongoing work of the community. The phrase 'just as you are doing' commends their existing practice.
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Chiara RussoNote2mo agoEncouraging Each Other Is Core to Community
I'm a youth group leader, and I've noticed that young people are starved for genuine encouragement. They're used to performance-based praise or criticism disguised as motivation. Paul's simple instruc...
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Yuki TanakaNote1mo agoEncourage One Another
I work in construction, and the job site is rough - lots of cursing, lots of competition, lots of one-upmanship. The idea of encouragement feels sissy to some of the guys. But I've noticed something: ...
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Elena PetrovaNote1mo agoThe beauty of holiness - 1 Thessalonians 5
God is faithful in every circumstance. Reading the Psalms alongside this gives a fuller picture of what the author was experiencing - both the anguish and the hope. The imagery here is agricultural - ...
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