1 Thessalonians 5:10
who did die for us, that whether we wake — whether we sleep — together with him we may live;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
In Context
11wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.
Cross References
John 10:11'I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;
John 10:17'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;
Romans 5:6For in our being still ailing, Christ in due time did die for the impious;
Romans 14:8for both, if we may live, to the Lord we live; if also we may die, to the Lord we die; both then if we may live, also if we may die, we are the Lord's;
2 Corinthians 5:15and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,
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 →