1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore let us not sleep like others, but let us watch and be sober:
1770 John Worsley NT
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 the light, and of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
7for they, that sleep, sleep in the night; and drunkards are drunk in the night:
Cross References
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore, for ye know not at what hour your Lord cometh:
Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know not the day, nor the season in which the Son of man cometh.
Matthew 26:40And coming to the disciples, he 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 →