1 Thessalonians 5:6
So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
Majority Standard Bible
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 the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
Matthew 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the hour in which your Lord will come.
Matthew 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour when the Son of Man comes.
Matthew 26:40Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.
Mark 13:37And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Keep 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 →