1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Updated King James Version
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 sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the ship captain came to him, and said unto him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore: for all of you know not what hour your Lord does come.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for all of you know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man comes.
Matthew 26:40And he comes unto the disciples, and finds them asleep, and says unto Peter, What, could all of you not watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:37And what I say unto you I say unto 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 →