1 Thessalonians 5:6
Let us not sleep, then, as others, but let us watch and be sober.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
5for ye all are 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 person shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6And the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call upon thy God! Perhaps God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Matthew 24:42Watch, therefore, for ye know not on what day your Lord is coming.
Matthew 25:13Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:40And he cometh to the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith to Peter, Is it so that 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 →