1 Thessalonians 5:10
who died for us, so that, whether we watch, or whether we sleep, we may live in union with him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
11Because of this, console one another and build up one another, just as you are doing.
Cross References
John 10:11I am the good Shepherd. The good Shepherd gives his life for his sheep.
John 10:17For this reason, the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, so that I may take it up again.
Romans 5:6Yet why did Christ, while we were still infirm, at the proper time, suffer death for the impious?
Romans 14:8For if we live, we live for the Lord, and if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:15And Christ died for all, so that even those who live might not now live for themselves, but for him who died for them and who rose again.
Ephesians 5:2And walk in love, just as Christ also loved us and delivered himself for us, as an oblation and a sacrifice to God, with a fragrance of sweetness.
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 →