1 Thessalonians 5:10
the one having died for us, in order that, whether we are awake or asleep, we shall at the same time live with him.
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
11Therefore exhort one another, and edify either the other, as you indeed are doing.
Cross References
John 10:11I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.
John 10:17Therefore my Father loves Me, because I lay down my soul, that I may take it again.
Romans 5:6For we being yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly:
Romans 14:8for if indeed we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Then indeed if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.
2 Corinthians 5:15and he died for all, in order that those living may not live unto themselves, but unto him who died for them and is risen.
Ephesians 5:2and walk about in divine love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet savor.
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 →