1 Thessalonians 5:10
Good News Translation
who died for us in order that we might live together with him, whether we are alive or dead when he comes.

New Revised Standard Version
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him.

Contemporary English Version
Christ died for us, so we could live with him, whether we are alive or dead when he comes.

New American Bible
who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him.

died.

Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.

John 10:11,15,17 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep. . . .

John 15:13 Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 5:6-8 For why did Christ, when as yet we were weak, according to the time, die for the ungodly? . . .

Romans 8:34 Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died: yea that is risen also again, who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Romans 14:8,9 For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's. . . .

1 Corinthians 15:3 For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures:

2 Corinthians 5:15,21 And Christ died for all: that they also who live may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them and rose again. . . .

Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us and hath delivered himself for us, an oblation and a sacrifice to God for an odour of sweetness.

1 Timothy 2:6 Who gave himself a redemption for all, a testimony in due times.

Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity and might cleanse to himself a people acceptable, a pursuer of good works.

1 Peter 2:24 Who his own self bore our sins in his body upon the tree: that we, being dead to sins, should live to justice: by whose stripes you were healed.

1 Peter 3:18 Because Christ also died once for our sins, the just for the unjust: that he might offer us to God, being put to death indeed in the flesh, but enlivened in the spirit,

whether.

1 Thessalonians 4:13,17 And we will not have you ignorant brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope. . . .

Context
The Day of the Lord
9For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but unto the purchasing of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10Who died for us: that, whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with him. 11For which cause comfort one another and edify one another, as you also do.…
Cross References
Romans 14:8
For whether we live, we live unto the Lord: or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.

Romans 14:9
For to this end Christ died and rose again: that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.

1 Thessalonians 4:15
For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

1 Thessalonians 4:17
Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air: and so shall we be always with the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

2 Timothy 2:11
A faithful saying: for if we be dead with him, we shall live also with him.

1 Thessalonians 5:9
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