1 Thessalonians 5:6
Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
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, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night;
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not at what hour your Master cometh.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour in which the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 26:40And he cometh to the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and he saith to Peter, Is it so, that ye have not strength to watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:37Now 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 →