1 Thessalonians 5:10

So that, whether we are awake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

In Context

9Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for an acquired possession of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us.

11Therefore encourage each other, and build ye up one by one, just as ye also are doing.

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Cross References

John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:17Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I may take it again.

Romans 5:6For while we were yet weak, in due time Christ died for the impious.

Romans 14:8For both if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Both if we live and if we die, therefore, we are the Lord's.

2 Corinthians 5:15And he died for all so that those who live would no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them, and was raised.

Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, as also the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.

Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11

Watchfulness and Sobriety. ( a. d. 51.) 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. On… Read the whole commentary →

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