1 Thessalonians 5:10
that, whether we are still watching or have fallen asleep, we may live with him.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
Cross References
John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
John 10:17This is why the Father loves me, because I lay down my life – to receive it again.
Romans 5:6seeing that, while we were still powerless, Christ, in God’s good time, died on behalf of the godless.
Romans 14:8for, if we live, our life is for the Master, and, if we die, our death is for the Master. Whether, then, we live or die we belong to the Master.
2 Corinthians 5:15and that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.
Ephesians 5:2and live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.
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 →