KJV King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.
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1 Thessalonians 5:6
Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
WEB World English Bible
so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
ASV American Standard Version
so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,
Surrounding context — 1 Thessalonians 5
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 are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 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.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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1 Peter 1:13Wherefore 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;Matthew 24:42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.Luke 22:46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.1 Peter 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:Romans 13:11-14And 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 16:15Behold, 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 16:13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.Ephesians 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.Titus 2:12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;Mark 13:34-35[For the Son of man is] as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.Revelation 3:2Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.Proverbs 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.Luke 12:37Blessed [are] those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.Luke 21:36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.Ephesians 6:18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;Jonah 1:6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
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