1 Thessalonians 5:6

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Summary

1 Thessalonians 5:6

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

Let us not

Watch

General references

Luke 12:40

Bible References

Let us not

Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.

Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour?

and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we first believed.

Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

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

Watch

Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

It is as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them sit down to meat, and shall come and serve them.

But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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

Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;

But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.

But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

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.

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

General references

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind,

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

Be ye also ready: for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.