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

Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.

Look about, ye blind; they all knew not, they all dumb dogs, they shall not be able to bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

And the chief sailor will draw near to him and say to him, What to thee, thou snoring? Arise, and call to thy God; perhaps thy God will work for us and we shall not perish.

And in men's sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away.

And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept.

And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldeat thou not watch one Hour?

And he said to them, Why sleep ye? having risen, pray that ye might not enter into temptation.

And this, knowing the time, that already the hour ye should be awakened out of sleep: for now our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.

Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.

Watch

Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord comes.

Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes.

Then says he to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch ye with me.

As a man travelling, having left his house, and having given power to his servants, and to each his work, and he commanded the guard of the door that he should watch.

Watch ye and pray, that ye should not come into temptation. Truly the spirit well inclined, and the flesh weak.

Happy those servants, whom the Lord having come shall find watching; truly I say to you, he will gird himself, and make them recline, and having come he will serve them.

Watch therefore, in all time praying, that ye be deemed worthy to escape all these about to be, and to stand before the Son of man.

And he said to them, Why sleep ye? having risen, pray that ye might not enter into temptation.

Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears.

Watch ye, stand in the faith, be manly, be strengthened..

By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:

In prayer persevere, watching in it in gratitude

And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.

And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.

Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God.

(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)

General references

And the daughter of the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the seagull, and the hawk according to its kind;

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down:

Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes.

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

And be ye therefore ready: for in the time which ye think not the Son of man is coming.