I Thessalonians 5:10
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He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
Commentaries
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died for us--Greek, "in our behalf." whether we wake or sleep--whether we be found at Christ's coming awake, that is, alive, or asleep, that is, in our graves. together--all of us together; the living not preceding the dead in their glorification "with Him" at His coming (Th1 4:13).
Open source ↗The apostle, having spoken in the end of the foregoing chapter concerning the resurrection, and the second coming of Christ, proceeds to speak concerning the uselessness of enquiring after the particular time of Christ's coming, which would be sudden and terrible to the wicked, but comfortable to the saints (Th1 5:1-5). He then exhorts them to the duties of watchfulness, sobriety, and the exercise of faith, love, and hope, as being suitable to their state (Th1 5:6-10). In the next words he exhorts them to several duties they owed to others, or to one another (Th1 5:11-15), afterwards to several other Christian duties of great importance (Th1 5:16-22), and then concludes this epistle (Th1 5:23-28).
Open source ↗5:10 The promise that believers will live with him forever is based on Christ’s resurrection (4:14). • dead or alive: A reference to living and deceased believers (4:13-15) rather than people’s moral condition (as in 5:6-7).
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For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died for them and was raised again.
and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
Who is there to condemn us? For Christ Jesus, who died, and more than that was raised to life, is at the right hand of God—and He is interceding for us.
He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.