1 Thessalonians 5:10
He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
Berean Standard Bible
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 has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
11Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
Cross References
John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:17The reason the Father loves Me is that I lay down My life in order to take it up again.
Romans 5:6For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.
Romans 14:8If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:15And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
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 →