1 Thessalonians 5:6 KJV — MannaFest

1 Thessalonians 5:6

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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ASV

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

WEB

So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

YLT

so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

DBT

So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

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1 Thessalonians — Paul's earliest letter. Thanksgiving for a young church's faith, and plain teaching on holy living and the return of Christ.

Author: Paul, with Silvanus and Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 50–51, from Corinth

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1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Luke 12:40
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Matthew 24:42
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

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Our moderation then, as to all temporal things, should be known to all men, because the Lord is at hand. Besides this, watchfulness and sobriety are most suitable to the Christian's character and privilege, as being children of the day; because those that sleep sleep in the night, and those that are drunken are drunken in the night,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

others--Greek, "the rest" of the world: the unconverted (1Th 4:13). "Sleep" here is worldly apathy to spiritual things (Ro 13:11; Eph 5:14); in 1Th 5:7, ordinary sleep; in 1Th 5:10, death. watch--for Christ's coming; literally, "be wakeful." The same Greek occurs in 1Co 15:34;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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