1 Thessalonians 5:6

American Standard Version (1901)

so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

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  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
  • Luke 22:46 : 46 and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed. 12 The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof] .
  • Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
  • Rev 16:15 : 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.)
  • Rev 3:2 : 2 Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 So 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.
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
  • Matt 25:5 : 5 Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
  • Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  • Mark 13:34-35 : 34 [ It is] as [when] a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch. 35 Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;
  • Mark 13:37 : 37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
  • Luke 12:37 : 37 Blessed 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 sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them. [
  • Luke 12:39 : 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to be broken through. [
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,
  • Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
  • Col 4:2 : 2 Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
  • 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
  • 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;

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  • 1 Thess 5:7-11
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    7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

    8But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

    9For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

    10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

    11Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-5
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    4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

    5for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

  • Mark 13:35-37
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    35Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

    36lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

    37And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

  • Eph 5:14-18
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    14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

    15Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

    16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

    17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

    18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

  • Rom 13:11-13
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    11And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.

    12The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

    13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

  • 1 Thess 4:13
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    13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Give not sleep to thine eyes, Nor slumber to thine eyelids;

  • 1 Pet 4:7
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    7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.

  • Eph 5:6-8
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    6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

    7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

    8For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

  • 1 Thess 5:1-2
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    1But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.

    2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    9How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

    10[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • Titus 2:6
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    6the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:

  • Gal 6:9-10
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    9And let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

    10So then, as we have opportunity, let us work that which is good toward all men, and especially toward them that are of the household of the faith.

  • 1 Cor 11:30
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    30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

  • Matt 25:5-6
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    5Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

    6But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.

  • Luke 22:46
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    46and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

  • Mark 13:33
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    33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • 1 Thess 4:5-6
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

    6that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

  • 1 Cor 16:13
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    13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

  • 1 Cor 15:51
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    51Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed,

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7(for we walk by faith, not by sight);

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

  • Luke 12:35
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    35Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;