1 Thessalonians 5:6

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So then, let us not sleep like the rest, but let us be alert and sober.

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  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober-minded, and set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
  • Luke 22:46 : 46 He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray, so that you will not fall into temptation."
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that the hour has already come for you to wake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. So let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the daytime, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.
  • Matt 24:42 : 42 Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 Look, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps their clothes with them, so they will not walk around naked and be shamefully exposed.
  • Rev 3:2 : 2 Be alert and strengthen what remains, which is about to die. For I have not found your works complete in the sight of God.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore, be watchful, remembering that for three years I never stopped admonishing each one of you with tears, night and day.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and a lazy soul will go hungry.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 Israel's watchmen are blind; they all lack knowledge. They are all mute dogs; they cannot bark. They lie around dreaming, loving to sleep.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 The captain came to him and said, "What are you doing, sound asleep? Get up, call on your god! Perhaps your god will consider us, so that we will not perish."
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.
  • Matt 25:5 : 5 When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
  • Matt 25:13 : 13 Therefore, watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then He said to them, "My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me."
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 Then He returned to His disciples and found them sleeping. "Couldn't you men keep watch with Me for one hour?" He asked Peter. 41 "Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Mark 13:34-35 : 34 It is like a man going on a journey, who leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their task, and tells the doorkeeper to stay alert. 35 Therefore, stay alert, because you do not know when the master of the house will come—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn.
  • Mark 13:37 : 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: Stay alert!
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Couldn't you keep watch for one hour? 38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Luke 12:37 : 37 Blessed are those servants whom the master finds watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, have them recline at the table, and will come to wait on them.
  • Luke 12:39 : 39 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 Be vigilant and pray at all times, so that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 Pray in the Spirit at all times with every kind of prayer and petition. Stay alert with all perseverance as you pray for all the saints.
  • Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.
  • Col 4:2 : 2 Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
  • 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.
  • 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 Likewise, I want women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing,
  • 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 But she will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness with self-control.
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Their wives likewise must be dignified, not slanderers, but sober-minded and faithful in all things.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But as for you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 It teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

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    7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

    8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

    9For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

    10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

    11Therefore, encourage one another and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-5
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    4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

    5You are all children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

  • Mark 13:35-37
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    35Therefore, stay alert, because you do not know when the master of the house will come—whether in the evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn.

    36Otherwise, when he comes suddenly, he may find you sleeping.

    37What I say to you, I say to everyone: Stay alert!

  • Eph 5:14-18
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    14Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

    15Be very careful, then, how you walk—not as unwise but as wise.

    16Make the most of the time, because the days are evil.

    17Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

    18And do not get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled with the Spirit.

  • Rom 13:11-13
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    11And do this, knowing the time, that the hour has already come for you to wake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

    12The night is far gone, and the day is near. So let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

    13Let us walk properly, as in the daytime, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

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    13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

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    4Do not allow sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

  • 1 Pet 4:7
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    7The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

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

    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

    8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

  • 1 Thess 5:1-2
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    1Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you.

    2For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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    15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

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    8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    9How long will you lie there, sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

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    6Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled.

  • Gal 6:9-10
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    9Let us not grow weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

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    30That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

  • Matt 25:5-6
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    5When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

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  • Luke 22:46
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    46He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray, so that you will not fall into temptation."

  • Mark 13:33
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    33Be on guard! Stay alert and pray, because you do not know when the time will come.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • 1 Thess 4:5-6
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    5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

    6And that no one transgresses or defrauds their brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have forewarned and solemnly testified to you.

  • 1 Cor 16:13
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    13Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.

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

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Let us then make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall into the same example of disobedience.

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    16For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

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    7(For we live by faith, not by sight.)

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    11And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

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    35Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning.