Chapter CONTEXT from MHCC: The apostle, having spoken in the end of the foregoing chapter concerning the resurrection, and the second coming of Christ, proceeds to speak concerning the uselessness of enquiring after the particular time of Christ’s coming, which would be sudden and terrible to the wicked, but comfortable to the saints (v. 1-5). He then exhorts them to the duties of watchfulness, sobriety, and the exercise of faith, love, and hope, as being suitable to their state (v. 6-10). In the next words he exhorts them to several duties they owed to others, or to one another (v. 11-15), afterwards to several other Christian duties of great importance (v. 16-22), and then concludes this epistle (v. 23-28).
Most modern translations of the Bible have some sort of heading for v.1-11 of 1 Thess. The vast majority of those refer to “The Day of the Lord” in some manner. Here this refers to the expectant imminent return of Christ and how “true believers” are to live. Our main text is the final exhortation, where Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit says Christians are to comfort and build up or motivate (edify) one another.
It is amazing to me how many folks claim to be believers and yet even in “Church” are doing anything but that which we are commanded to do here.
Here is a link to MacLaren’s Expositions on this verse, an outstanding breakdown of what is means to comfort and edify the Body of Christ.
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