1 Thessalonians 5:6
so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
5for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:40And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:37And what I say unto you I say unto 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 →