1 Thessalonians 5:10
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with him.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
11Wherefore, exhort one another, and edify one another, as you also do.
Cross References
John 10:11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
John 10:17For this reason, my Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.
Romans 5:6For when we were yet without strength, at the appointed time, Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 14:8For if we live, we live to the Lord; or if we die, we die to the Lord. Whether, therefore, we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
2 Corinthians 5:15and he died for all, that those who live should no more live for themselves, but for him who died for them, and rose again.
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.
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 →