1 Thessalonians 5:10

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He died for us so that whether we are alert or asleep we will come to life together with him.

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  • 2 Cor 5:15 : 15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.
  • Rom 14:8-9 : 8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.
  • 1 Cor 15:3 : 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance what I also received– that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures,
  • Rom 8:34 : 34 Who is the one who will condemn? Christ is the one who died(and more than that, he was raised), who is at the right hand of God, and who also is interceding for us.
  • Matt 20:28 : 28 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.”
  • John 10:11 : 11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
  • John 10:15 : 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father– and I lay down my life for the sheep.
  • John 10:17 : 17 This is why the Father loves me– because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.
  • John 15:13 : 13 No one has greater love than this– that one lays down his life for his friends.
  • 2 Cor 5:21 : 21 God made the one who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that in him we would become the righteousness of God.
  • Eph 5:2 : 2 and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.
  • 1 Thess 4:13 : 13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
  • 1 Thess 4:17 : 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
  • 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, revealing God’s purpose at his appointed time.
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh but by being made alive in the spirit.
  • Rom 5:6-8 : 6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.) 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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    13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.

    14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe that God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.

    15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.

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    13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.

    14 For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

    15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.

  • Rom 6:7-11
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    7 (For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

    8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.

    9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he is never going to die again; death no longer has mastery over him.

    10 For the death he died, he died to sin once for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God.

    11 So you too consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

  • 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.

  • Rom 14:7-9
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    7 For none of us lives for himself and none dies for himself.

    8 If we live, we live for the Lord; if we die, we die for the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.

    9 For this reason Christ died and returned to life, so that he may be the Lord of both the dead and the living.

  • 11 This saying is trustworthy: If we died with him, we will also live with him.

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    6 So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.

    7 For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

    8 But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation.

    9 For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • Rom 5:6-8
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    6 For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.

    7 (For rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person perhaps someone might possibly dare to die.)

    8 But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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    10 always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11 For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

    12 As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

  • 18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.

  • 5 even though we were dead in offenses, made us alive together with Christ– by grace you are saved!–

  • 14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”

  • 10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?

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    17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

    18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

  • 2 Cor 1:9-10
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    9 Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

    10 He delivered us from so great a risk of death, and he will deliver us. We have set our hope on him that he will deliver us yet again,

  • 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.

  • 14 We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

  • 1 Pet 4:5-6
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    5 They will face a reckoning before Jesus Christ who stands ready to judge the living and the dead.

    6 Now it was for this very purpose that the gospel was preached to those who are now dead, so that though they were judged in the flesh by human standards they may live spiritually by God’s standards.

  • 30 That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.

  • 9 So then whether we are alive or away, we make it our ambition to please him.

  • Rom 6:4-5
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    4 Therefore we have been buried with him through baptism into death, in order that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may live a new life.

    5 For if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united in the likeness of his resurrection.

  • 14 We know that we have crossed over from death to life because we love our fellow Christians. The one who does not love remains in death.

  • 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?

  • 16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by grace gave us eternal comfort and good hope,

  • 3 I do not say this to condemn you, for I told you before that you are in our hearts so that we die together and live together with you.

  • 22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

  • 10 but now made visible through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus. He has broken the power of death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel!

  • 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.

  • 8 For now we are alive again, if you stand firm in the Lord.