1 Thessalonians 5:10
who died on our behalf, so that whether we are awake or are sleeping we may share His Life.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
11Therefore encourage one another, and let each one help to strengthen his friend, as in fact you do.
Cross References
John 10:11"I am the Good Shepherd. A good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.
John 10:17For this reason my Father loves me, because I am laying down my life in order to receive it back again.
Romans 5:6For already, while we were still helpless, Christ at the right moment died for the ungodly.
Romans 14:8If we live, we live to the Lord: if we die, we die to the Lord. So whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:15and that He died for all in order that the living may no longer live to themselves, but to Him who died for them and rose again.
Ephesians 5:2And live and act lovingly, as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up to death on our behalf as an offering and sacrifice to God, yielding a fragrant 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 →