Devine Scripture

1 Thessalonians 5:6

1 Thessalonians chapter 5 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.5for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

v.6This passage

v.7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Revelation 16:15

    (Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)

  • 1 Timothy 3:2

    The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  • Ephesians 6:18

    with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

  • Ephesians 5:14

    Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

  • Revelation 3:2

    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.

  • Mark 13:37

    And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.