1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
5For all of you are sons of light and sons of daytime; we are not of nighttime, nor of darkness.
7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are inebriated, are inebriated in the night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Laziness sends one into a deep sleep, and a dissolute soul will go hungry.
Jonah 1:6And the helmsman approached him, and he said to him, “Why are you weighed down with sleep? Rise, call upon your God, so perhaps God will be mindful of us and we might not perish.”
Matthew 24:42Therefore, be vigilant. For you do not know at what hour your Lord will return.
Matthew 25:13And so you must be vigilant, because you do not know the day or the hour.
Matthew 26:40And he approached his disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter: “So, were you not able to keep vigil with me for one hour?
Mark 13:37But what I say to you, I say to all: Be vigilant.”
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 →