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 bringeth sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

For his watchmen are all blind, they have altogether no understanding. They are all dumb dogs, no being able to bark; they are sleepery, sluggish, and lie snorting.

And the master of the ship came to him and said unto him, "Why slumberest thou? Up! And call unto thy god, that God may think on us, that we perish not."

But while men slept, there came his foe, and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

While the bridegroom tarried, all slumbered and slept.

And he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, sleepest thou? Couldest not thou watch with me one hour?

and said unto them, "Why sleep ye? Rise, and pray lest ye fall into temptation."

This also we know, I mean the season: how that it is time that we should now awake out of sleep. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke.

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."

Watch

Wake, therefore, because ye know not what hour your master will come.

Look that ye watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor yet the hour, when the son of man shall come.

Then said Jesus unto them, "My soul is heavy even unto the death. Tarry ye here: and watch with me."

As a man which is gone into a strange country and hath left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

Watch ye, and pray, lest ye enter into temptation: the spirit is ready, but the flesh is weak."

Happy are those servants, which their Lord, when he cometh, shall find waking; Verily I say unto you, he will gird himself about, and make them sit down to meat, and walk by them, and minister unto them.

Watch therefore continually and pray, that ye may obtain grace to fly all this that shall come. And that ye may stand before the son of man."

and said unto them, "Why sleep ye? Rise, and pray lest ye fall into temptation."

Therefore awake and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one of you, both night and day with tears.

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

and pray always with all manner prayer and supplication - and that in the spirit - and watch thereunto with all instance and supplication for all saints,

Continue in prayer and watch in the same with thanksgiving,

But watch thou in all things, and suffer adversity, and do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thine office unto the utmost.

The end of all things is at hand. Be ye therefore discreet, and sober, that ye may be apt to prayers.

Be awake, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die. For I have not found thy works perfect before God.

"Behold I come as a thief. Happy is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments; Lest he be found naked, and men see his filthiness."

General references

the ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk, and all the kind;

Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little;

Look that ye watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor yet the hour, when the son of man shall come.

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

Be ye prepared therefore, for the son of man will come at a hour when ye think not."