1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
5You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.
7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Watch, therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord is coming.
Matthew 25:13Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:40And he came to his disciples, and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter: Was it so, that you had not strength to watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:37What 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 →