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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 · New King James Version
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  • WEB who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
  • KJV 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.
  • 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 if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord’s.
  • 1 Pet 3:18Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit;
  • Matt 20:28even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • Eph 5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
  • 2 Cor 5:15He died for all, that those who live should no longer live to themselves, but to him who for their sakes died and rose again.
  • Titus 2:14who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • Rom 8:34Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.
  • 1 Th 4:17then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.
  • John 15:13Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
  • Rom 5:6–8For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
  • 1 Pet 2:24who his own self bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness; by whose stripes you were healed.
  • 2 Cor 5:21For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
  • John 10:11I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • 1 Tim 2:6who gave himself as a ransom for all; the testimony in its own times;
  • 1 Th 4:13But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.
  • 1 Cor 15:3For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
  • John 10:15even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 10:17Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

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The believer waits for God's Son from heaven, Jesus who delivers from the wrath to come and who will return to gather his people to himself.

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