1 Thessalonians 5:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἄρα οὖν μὴ καθεύδωμεν, ὡς καὶ οἱ λοιποί· ἀλλὰ γρηγορῶμεν καὶ νήφωμεν.

Transliteration

Ara oun mē katheudōmen, hōs kai hoi loipoi; alla grēgorōmen kai nēphōmen.

Grammar Details

• *Ara oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore then/so then
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *katheudōmen*: present, active, subjunctive, 1st person plural - let us sleep/we should sleep
• *hōs*: comparative particle - as/like
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *hoi loipoi*: nominative, masculine, plural with article - the rest/the others
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *grēgorōmen*: present, active, subjunctive, 1st person plural - let us be alert/let us stay awake
• *nēphōmen*: present, active, subjunctive, 1st person plural - let us be sober/let us be self-controlled

Word Meanings

• *katheudōmen*: let us sleep/we should sleep (metaphorical for spiritual unawareness)
• *loipoi*: rest/others/remainder
• *grēgorōmen*: let us be alert/let us stay awake/let us be vigilant
• *nēphōmen*: let us be sober/let us be self-controlled/let us be clearheaded

Referenced Verses

• 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 {G2257} 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: {G3754} 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, {G2532} 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 {G1722} {G2540} {G3956} and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching {G846} thereunto {G5124} 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, {G2532} 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;