1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
7For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slouthfulnes causeth to fall asleepe, and a deceitfull person shall be affamished.
Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and saide vnto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore: for ye knowe not what houre your master will come.
Matthew 25:13Watch therfore: for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, when the sonne of man will come.
Matthew 26:40After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? coulde yee not watch with me one houre?
Mark 13:37And those things that I say vnto you, I say vnto all men, 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 →