1 Thessalonians 5:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὸ παρακαλεῖτε ἀλλήλους, καὶ οἰκοδομεῖτε εἷς τὸν ἕνα, καθὼς καὶ ποιεῖτε.

Transliteration

Dio parakaleite allēlous, and oikodomeite heis ton hena, kathōs kai poieite.

Grammar Details

*Dio*: conjunction - therefore/for this reason
*parakaleite*: present, active, imperative, 2nd person plural - encourage/exhort
*allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another
*oikodomeite*: present, active, imperative, 2nd person plural - build up/edify
*heis ton hena*: nominative and accusative with article - each one the other/one another
*kathōs*: comparative conjunction - just as/even as
*kai*: adverbial - also/indeed
*poieite*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you do/you are doing

Word Meanings

*parakaleite*: encourage/exhort/comfort/urge
*oikodomeite*: build up/edify/strengthen
*heis ton hena*: each one the other/one another (literally: one the one)

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Referenced Verses

Eph 4:29 : 29 Let {G3956} no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.
Heb 10:25 : 25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting [one another]; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
Heb 3:13 : 13 but exhort one another {G1538} day by day, so long as it is called To-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin:
1 Thess 4:18 : 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Rom 14:19 : 19 So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.
Rom 15:2 : 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, unto edifying.
1 Cor 14:12 : 12 So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.
Jude 1:20 : 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit,
Eph 4:12 : 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
Eph 4:16 : 16 from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in [due] measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.
1 Cor 10:23 : 23 All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; {G3427} but not all things edify.
1 Cor 14:5 : 5 Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except {G3361} he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
Rom 15:14 : 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye yourselves are {G2532} full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
2 Cor 12:19 : 19 {G3825} Ye think all this time that we are excusing ourselves unto you. In the sight of God speak we in Christ. But all things, beloved, [are] for your edifying.
2 Pet 1:12 : 12 Wherefore I shall be {G3756} ready always to put you in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and are established in the truth which is with [you].
1 Thess 4:10 : 10 for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

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