1 Thessalonians 5:6
so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
Matthew 26:40He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?
Mark 13:37What I tell you, I tell 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 →