1 Thessalonians 5:10
who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or sleep, we may live together with him.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
9because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
11Wherefore encourage one another, and build up each one the other, even as also ye do.
Cross References
John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep:
John 10:17On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.
Romans 5:6for we being still without strength, in [the] due time Christ has died for [the] ungodly.
Romans 14:8For both if we should live, [it is] to the Lord we live; and if we should die, [it is] to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.
2 Corinthians 5:15and he died for all, that they who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who died for them and has been raised.
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.
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 →