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1 Thessalonians 5:10-12
New English Translation
1 Thessalonians 5:10-12
New English Translation
10 He died[a] for us so that whether we are alert or asleep[b] we will come to life together with him. 11 Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, just as you are in fact doing.
Final Instructions
12 Now we ask you, brothers and sisters,[c] to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,
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- 1 Thessalonians 5:10 tn Grk “the one who died,” describing Jesus Christ (1 Thess 5:9). Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 10 in the translation.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:10 sn The phrases alert or asleep may be understood (1) of moral alertness (living in faith, love, and hope as vv. 6, 8 call for, versus being unresponsive to God) or (2) of physical life and death (whether alive or dead). The first fits better with the context of 5:1-9, while the second returns to the point Paul started with in 4:13-18 (no disadvantage for the believing dead).
- 1 Thessalonians 5:12 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.
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