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who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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Christ's Death Secures Your Hope
Commentators stress that Christ's death is the direct cause and solid foundation of our salvation. It was an atoning sacrifice made "for us" (on our behalf) to ransom our souls. This act is the specific means by which God secures His people, assuring believers they are destined for salvation, not wrath.
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1 Thessalonians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Who died for us. That is, to redeem us. He intended by His death that we should ultimately live with Him; and this effect of His death cou…
For us (περ ημων).
Around us . So Westcott and Hort, but υπερ (over, in behalf of) as in many MSS. These p…
19th Century
Anglican
Who died for us.—This is not a mere pious recollection of a fact that has nothing to do with the context, but an account of the wa…
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Baptist
Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Therefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another…
This verse is noteworthy. Here for the first time in Paul’s writings, he states the specific means by which Jesus Christ procures our salvation: “H…
16th Century
Protestant
Who died. From the design of Christ’s death, he confirms what he has said. For if he died with this purpose—that he might make us partaker…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Who died for us The elect of God, who are not appointed to wrath, but to salvation by Christ, on which account he di…
Most of humankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them correctly, because they…
13th Century
Catholic
In what he had written before, Paul corrected the Thessalonians in matters that needed improvement, and now he begins to instruct them about the fu…
