1 Thessalonians 5:6

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Therefore, prepare your minds for action, be sober and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ--
  • Luke 22:46 : 46 and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
  • Rom 13:11-14 : 11 Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed. 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.
  • Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
  • 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
  • Rev 3:2 : 2 Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
  • Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all mute dogs, they can't bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
  • Jonah 1:6 : 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said to him, "What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won't perish."
  • Matt 13:25 : 25 but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
  • Matt 25:5 : 5 Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
  • Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
  • Matt 26:38 : 38 Then he said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me."
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Mark 13:34-35 : 34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. 35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
  • Mark 13:37 : 37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
  • Mark 14:37-38 : 37 He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray, that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • Luke 12:37 : 37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will 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 allowed his house to be broken into.
  • Luke 21:36 : 36 Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • Eph 6:18 : 18 with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
  • Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
  • Col 4:2 : 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
  • 1 Thess 5:8 : 8 But let us, since we belong to 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 the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
  • 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.
  • 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
  • 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
  • 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
  • Titus 2:6 : 6 Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
  • Titus 2:12 : 12 instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

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    7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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

    9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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    4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

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  • Mark 13:35-37
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    35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

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  • Eph 5:14-18
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    14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

    15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

    16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

    17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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  • Rom 13:11-13
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    8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  • Prov 6:9-10
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    33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.

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    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

    6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

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    13 Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

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    51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

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    35 "Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.