1 Thessalonians 5:6
So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
5Ye are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What do thou mean, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we not perish.
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore, because ye know not at what hour your Lord comes.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, because ye know not the day nor the hour in which the son of man comes.
Matthew 26:40And he comes to the disciples, and finds them sleeping. And he says to Peter, So ye could not watch with me one hour.
Mark 13:37And what I say to you I say to all, watch!
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6
The Coming of Christ. ( a. d. 51.) 1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we… Read the whole commentary →