1 Thessalonians 5:6
Sleep we not, therefore, as the rest; but be wakeful and sober.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
7For they who sleep, in the night sleep; and they who are drunken, in the night are drunken.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Be wakeful therefore, because ye know not in what hour cometh your Lord.
Matthew 25:13Be wakeful therefore, for you know not that day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:40Then he came to his disciples, and found them sleeping; and he said to Kipha, How, could you not for one hour watch with me?
Mark 13:37But what to you I say, that unto all I say, Be watchful.
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 →