1 Thessalonians 5:6

Geneva Bible (1560)

Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.

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  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Wherefore, girde vp the Ioynes of your minde: bee sober, and trust perfectly on that grace that is brought vnto you, in the reuelation of Iesus Christ,
  • Luke 22:46 : 46 And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise fro sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer, then when we beleeued it. 12 The night is past, and the day is at hande, let vs therefore cast away the workes of darkenesse, and let vs put on the armour of light, 13 So that wee walke honestly, as in the day: not in gluttonie, and drunkennesse, neither in chambering and wantonnes, nor in strife and enuying. 14 But put yee on the Lorde Iesvs Christ, and take no thought for the flesh, to fulfill the lustes of it.
  • Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore: for ye knowe not what houre your master will come.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 ( Beholde, I come as a theefe. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, least hee walke naked, and men see his filthines)
  • Rev 3:2 : 2 Be awake, and strengthen the things which remaine, that are readie to die: for I haue not found thy workes perfite before God.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore watche, and remember, that by the space of three yeres I ceased not to warne euery one, both night and day with teares.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 Now the ende of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watching in prayer.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slouthfulnes causeth to fall asleepe, and a deceitfull person shall be affamished.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 Their watchmen are all blinde: they haue no knowledge: they are all dumme dogs: they can not barke: they lie and sleepe and delite in sleeping.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and saide vnto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? Arise, call vpon thy God, if so be that God wil thinke vpon vs, that we perish not.
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 But while men slept, there came his enemie, and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his waie.
  • Matt 25:5 : 5 Nowe while the bridegrome taried long, all slumbred and slept.
  • Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therfore: for ye know neither the day, nor the houre, when the sonne of man will come.
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then sayde Iesus vnto them, My soule is very heauie, euen vnto the death: tarie yee here, and watch with me.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 After, hee came vnto the disciples, and founde them a sleepe, and sayde to Peter, What? Coulde yee not watch with me one houre? 41 Watch, and praie, that yee enter not into tentation: the spirit in deede is readie, but the flesh is weake.
  • Mark 13:34-35 : 34 For the Sonne of man is as a man going into a strange countrey, & leaueth his house, & giueth authoritie to his seruaunts, and to euery man his woorke, and commandeth the porter to watch. 35 Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)
  • Mark 13:37 : 37 And those things that I say vnto you, I say vnto all men, Watch.
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 Then hee came, and founde them sleeping, and said to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watche one houre? 38 Watch ye, and pray, that ye enter not into tentation: the spirite in deede is ready, but the flesh is weake.
  • Luke 12:37 : 37 Blessed are those seruants, whom the Lord when he commeth shall finde waking: verely I say vnto you, he will girde himselfe about, and make them to sit downe at table, and will come forth, and serue them.
  • Luke 12:39 : 39 Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged through.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 Watche therefore, and pray continually, that ye may be counted worthy to escape all these thinges that shall come to passe, and that ye may stand before the Sonne of man.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye: stand fast in the faith: quite you like men, and be strong.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 And pray alwayes with all maner prayer and supplication in the Spirit: and watch thereunto with all perseuerance & supplication for al Saints,
  • Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your patient minde be knowen vnto all men. The Lord is at hand.
  • Col 4:2 : 2 Continue in prayer, and watch in the fame with thankesgiuing,
  • 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.
  • 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 Likewise also the women, that they aray themselues in comely apparell, with shamefastnes and modestie, not with broyded heare, or gold, or pearles, or costly apparell,
  • 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 Notwithstanding, through bearing of children she shalbe saued if they continue in faith, and loue, and holines with modestie.
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 A Bishop therefore must be vnreproueable, the husband of one wife, watching, temperate, modest, harberous, apt to teache,
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Likewise their wiues must be honest, not euill speakers, but sober, and faithfull in all things.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watch thou in all thinges: suffer aduersitie: doe the worke of an Euangelist: cause thy ministerie to be throughly liked of.
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 Exhort yong men likewise, that they bee sober minded.
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 And teacheth vs that we should denie vngodlinesse and worldly lusts, and that we should liue soberly and righteously, and godly in this present world,

Similar Verses (AI)

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

    8But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.

    9For God hath not appointed vs vnto wrath, but to obtaine saluation by the meanes of our Lord Iesus Christ,

    10Which died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.

    11Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-5
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    4But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shal come on you, as it were a thiefe.

    5Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse.

  • Mark 13:35-37
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    35Watch ye therefore, (for ye know not whe ye master of the house will come, at eue, or at midnight, at the cocke crowing, or in the dawning,)

    36Least if he come suddenly, he should finde you sleeping.

    37And those things that I say vnto you, I say vnto all men, Watch.

  • Eph 5:14-18
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    14Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.

    15Take heede therefore that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but as wise,

    16Redeeming ye season: for ye daies are euill.

    17Wherefore, be ye not vnwise, but vnderstand what the will of the Lord is.

    18And be not drunke with wine, wherein is excesse: but be fulfilled with the Spirit,

  • Rom 13:11-13
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    11And that, considering the season, that it is now time that we should arise fro sleepe: for now is our saluation neerer, then when we beleeued it.

    12The night is past, and the day is at hande, let vs therefore cast away the workes of darkenesse, and let vs put on the armour of light,

    13So that wee walke honestly, as in the day: not in gluttonie, and drunkennesse, neither in chambering and wantonnes, nor in strife and enuying.

  • 1 Thess 4:13
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    13I would not, brethren, haue you ignorant concerning them which are a sleepe, that ye sorow not euen as other which haue no hope.

  • Prov 6:4
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    4Giue no sleepe to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

  • 1 Pet 4:7
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    7Now the ende of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore sober, and watching in prayer.

  • 1 Cor 15:34
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    34Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.

  • Eph 5:6-8
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    6Let no man deceiue you with vaine wordes: for, for such thinges commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of disobedience.

    7Be not therefore companions with them.

    8For ye were once darkenesse, but are nowe light in the Lord: walke as children of light,

  • 1 Thess 5:1-2
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    1Bvt of the times and seasons, brethren, yee haue no neede that I write vnto you.

    2For ye your selues knowe perfectly, that the day of the Lorde shall come, euen as a thiefe in the night.

  • 1 Thess 4:15
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    15For this say we vnto you by the worde of the Lorde, that we which liue, and are remayning in the comming of the Lorde, shall not preuent them which sleepe.

  • 1 Pet 5:8
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    8Be sober, and watch: for your aduersarie the deuil as a roaring lyon walketh about, seeking whom he may deuoure:

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    9Howe long wilt thou sleepe, O sluggarde? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleepe?

    10Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the hands to sleepe.

  • Titus 2:6
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    6Exhort yong men likewise, that they bee sober minded.

  • Gal 6:9-10
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    9Let vs not therefore be weary of well doing: for in due season we shall reape, if we faint not.

    10While we haue therefore time, let vs doe good vnto all men, but specially vnto them, which are of the housholde of faith.

  • 1 Cor 11:30
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    30For this cause many are weake, & sicke among you, and many sleepe.

  • Matt 25:5-6
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    5Nowe while the bridegrome taried long, all slumbred and slept.

    6And at midnight there was a crie made, Behold, the bridegrome commeth: goe out to meete him.

  • Luke 22:46
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    46And he said vnto them, Why sleepe ye? rise and pray, least ye enter into tentation.

  • Mark 13:33
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    33Take heede: watch, and praie: for yee knowe not when the time is.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake ye drunkards, and weepe, & howle all ye drinkers of wine, because of the newe wine: for it shalbe pulled from your mouth.

  • 1 Thess 4:5-6
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    5And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

    6That no man oppresse or defraude his brother in any matter: for the Lord is auenger of all such thinges, as we also haue tolde you before time, and testified.

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

  • 1 Cor 15:51
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    51Behold, I shewe you a secret thing, We shall not all sleepe, but we shall all be changed,

  • Heb 4:11
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    11Let vs studie therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same ensample of disobedience.

  • Prov 4:16
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    16For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.

  • Prov 24:33
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    33Yet a litle sleepe, a litle slumber, a litle folding of the handes to sleepe.

  • 2 Cor 5:7
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    7(For we walke by faith, and not by sight.)

  • 1 Cor 6:11
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    11And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lorde Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

  • Luke 12:35
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    35Let your loynes be gird about and your lights burning,