1 Thessalonians 5:6
So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
5For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness.
7For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
Cross References
Matthew 24:42"Keep guard then, for you do not know the day on which your Master is coming.
Matthew 25:13"Be watchful then, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:40Then he came to his disciples, and found them asleep, and said to Peter. "So you were none of you strong enough to watch with me even one hour!
Mark 13:37and what I say to you, I say to all. Be awake and on guard."
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 →