What does 1 Thessalonians 5:11 mean?

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
1 Thessalonians 5:11, King James Version

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The verse in its chapter

1 Thessalonians 5:9-13

  1. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
  2. 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
  3. 11 Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
  4. 12 And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;
  5. 13 And to esteem them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace among yourselves.

Study note

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5:11 Paul wants the Thessalonians to use the instruction about the end to encourage and build each other up (see 4:18), not to fuel speculation about the timing of the Lord’s return.

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About the book of 1 Thessalonians

Author
Paul, with Silvanus and Timothy (1 Thessalonians 1:1)
When
c. AD 50, from Corinth
Period
Igreja primitiva, c. 30 a 70 d.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

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