1 Thessalonians 5:10
who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we might live together with him.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
11Therefore comfort one another, and edify one another, as also ye have done.
Cross References
John 10:11I am a good shepherd. A good shepherd exposeth his life for the sheep.
John 10:17For this cause my Father loveth me, that I lay down my life, to resume it again.
Romans 5:6And if at this time, on account of our weakness, Messiah died for the ungodly:
Romans 14:8Because, if we live, to our Lord it is we live; or if we die, to our Lord it is we die. Whether we live, therefore, or whether we die, we are our Lord's.
2 Corinthians 5:15And he died for all, that they who live should not live to themselves, but to him who died for them and rose again.
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love; as the Messiah also hath loved us, and hath given up himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God, for a sweet odor.
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 →