"Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others; but let us watch and be sober." — 1 Thessalonians 5:6

1 Thessalonians 5:6 · KJV

“Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others; but let us watch and be sober.”

— 1 Thessalonians 5:6

Verse 5

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Verse 7

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5 — Context

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others; but let us watch and be sober.

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

Cross References

1 Peter 1:13

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; {to the end: Gr. perfectly}

Matthew 24:42

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Luke 22:46

And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

Romans 13:11-14

And that, knowing the time, that now {it is} high time to awake out of sleep: for now {is} our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Revelation 16:15

Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed {is} he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Ephesians 5:14

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. {he: or, it}