What Does 1 Thessalonians 5:11 Mean in the King James?
Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The comfort you receive from others is part of how you are built, and the comfort you give is part of how they are built.
THE MEANING
You are part of a shared life where comfort moves between people and strengthens each of you. You receive support, give support, and this mutual building is already at work among you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that needing comfort makes you a burden, or that strength flows in only one direction: here each person receives and gives it.
THE ROOT
παρακαλεῖτε
parakaleite
GROWS FROM
παρακαλέω (pará + kaléō)
Console, encourage, or urge; an appeal that can steady someone and call them forward.
The word’s family holds consolation and appeal together: comfort can soothe, but it can also strengthen someone to keep going. Here that support is mutual, moving between you and the people around you.
ALSO GROWS
paraklēsis: comfort, encouragement, appeal
παράκλησις
This related noun holds consolation and urging within the same word family.
paraklētos: comforter, advocate
παράκλητος
This related word shows the same family extending comfort into advocacy and support.
οἰκοδομεῖτε
oikodomeite
GROWS FROM
οἰκοδομέω (oîkos + doméō)
Build a house; figuratively, build up or strengthen.
The English “edify” can sound like an abstract improvement, while the Greek word carries the shape of house-building. Each person helps strengthen the shared life the others inhabit.
ALSO GROWS
oikodomē: building, edification
οἰκοδομή
The related noun names the building work itself, showing that strengthening one another forms something shared.
oikodomos: builder
οἰκοδόμος
This related word makes visible the people doing the work of building.
THE PATTERN
People become stronger through mutual acts that sharpen, comfort, and build one another.
Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.THE THREAD
Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.The word translated “edify” comes from the same Greek word family as the house-building verb here. Romans ties that shared building to peace, showing how mutual strengthening takes shape among you.
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