1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
In Context
5Ye are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
7For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Jonah 1:6So the ship-master came to him, and said to him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, it may be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord cometh.
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 26:40And he cometh to the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith to Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:37And 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 →