1 Thessalonians 5:10
Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
9For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
11So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.
Cross References
John 10:11I am the good keeper of sheep: the good keeper gives his life for the sheep.
John 10:17For this reason am I loved by the Father, because I give up my life so that I may take it again.
Romans 5:6For when we were still without strength, at the right time Christ gave his life for evil-doers.
Romans 14:8As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.
2 Corinthians 5:15And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.
Ephesians 5:2And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
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 →