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1 Thessalonians 5:10

Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Thessalonians 5:10 · King James Version
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  • WEB who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
  • BSB He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
  • NKJV who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.
  • NASB who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with Him.
  • NLT Christ died for us so that, whether we are dead or alive when he returns, we can live with him forever.

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Christ died for us so that, whether alive or dead when He returns, all believers will share life together with Him.

Overview

Paul grounds Christian hope and assurance in the substitutionary death of Christ, who died "for us." The contrast of "wake or sleep" recalls the living and the dead believers discussed earlier (4:13-17), assuring both that they will live with Christ. The aim of Christ's atoning death is union and shared life with Him, a fellowship that death cannot break.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Rom 14:8–9For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.
  • 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
  • Matt 20:28Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
  • Eph 5:2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
  • 2 Cor 5:15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • Titus 2:14Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
  • Rom 8:34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
  • 1 Th 4:17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
  • John 15:13Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
  • Rom 5:6–8For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
  • John 10:11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
  • 1 Tim 2:6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
  • 1 Th 4:13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
  • 1 Cor 15:3For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
  • John 10:15As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 10:17Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

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