Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.
New American Standard Bible
so then let us not
King James Version
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Holman Bible
So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious.
International Standard Version
Therefore, let's not fall asleep like others do, but let's stay awake and be sober.
A Conservative Version
So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.
American Standard Version
so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
Amplified
So then let us not sleep [in spiritual indifference] as the rest [of the world does], but let us keep wide awake [alert and cautious] and let us be sober [self-controlled, calm, and wise].
An Understandable Version
So then, we should not be [spiritually] asleep, like the rest [i.e., the unsaved world], but we should be alert and sober [i.e., in control of our senses].
Bible in Basic English
So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.
Common New Testament
So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us be alert and sober.
Daniel Mace New Testament
therefore let us not sleep away our time like others, but be vigilant and temperate.
Darby Translation
So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;
Godbey New Testament
then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober.
Goodspeed New Testament
So we must not sleep like other men, but we must be vigilant and composed.
John Wesley New Testament
Therefore let us not sleep as the others, but let us awake and keep awake.
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober.
King James 2000
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be calm.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober.
Moffatt New Testament
Well then, we must not sleep like the rest of men, but be wakeful and sober;
Montgomery New Testament
So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.
NET Bible
So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober.
New Heart English Bible
so then let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.
Noyes New Testament
Let us not sleep, then, as others, but let us watch and be sober.
Sawyer New Testament
Therefore let us not sleep as others, but let us watch and be sober.
The Emphasized Bible
Hence, then, let us not be sleeping, as the rest, but let us watch and be sober: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore let us not sleep as others do. No, let us be watchful and self-controlled.
Webster
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Weymouth New Testament
So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.
Williams New Testament
So let us stop sleeping as others do, but let us stay awake and keep sober.
World English Bible
so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
Worrell New Testament
So, then, let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
Worsley New Testament
Therefore let us not sleep like others, but let us watch and be sober:
Youngs Literal Translation
so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,
Themes
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Who
Light, spiritual » Believers' duty performed in » Watching
Sleep » Spiritual » Warnings against
Sobriety » Required in » All saints
Spiritual » Sleep » Warnings against
Spiritual » Believers' duties performed in the light » Watching
War » Figurative » To be carried on » With sobriety
Warfare of saints » To be carried on » With sobriety
Watchfulness » Should be » With sobriety
Watchfulness » Exhortations to
Watchfulness » For the coming of Christ, reasons for » The children of light will no sleep
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sudden Arrival Of The Day Of The Lord
5 You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
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Cross References
Luke 22:46
And he said to them: Why do you sleep? Arise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind; be watchful, and hope constantly for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
Matthew 24:42
"Watch, therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord is coming.
Romans 13:11-14
And do this, because you know the time, that the hour has already come when we should awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed:
Matthew 13:25
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 25:5
While the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
Matthew 25:13
Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:38
Then Jesus said to them: My soul is encompassed with sorrow even to death; remain here, and watch with me.
Matthew 26:40-41
And he came to his disciples, and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter: Was it so, that you had not strength to watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:34-35
As a man, going into another country, leaves his house, and gives authority to his servants, and to each one his own work, and commands the door-keeper to watch;
Mark 13:37
What I say to you, I say to all, Watch.
Mark 14:37-38
And he came and found them sleeping; and he said to Peter: Simon, do you sleep? Had you not strength to watch one hour?
Luke 12:37
Blessed are those servants whom their lord, when he comes, shall find watching. Verily I say to you, That he will gird himself and make them recline at table, and will come forth and serve them.
Luke 12:39
But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief comes, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Luke 21:36
Watch, therefore, and pray at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, remembering that for three years, by day and by night, I ceased not to warn every one of you with tears.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, be men, be resolute.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore, the scripture says: Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.
Ephesians 6:18
praying with all prayer and supplication, at all times, in the Spirit; and to this end being watchful in all perseverance, and supplication for all the saints:
Philippians 4:5
Let your gentleness be known to all men: the Lord is at hand.
Colossians 4:2
Persevere in prayer, and be watchful in the same with thanksgiving;
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:
1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner, also, I will that the women adorn themselves with decorous dress, with modesty and sobriety, not with plaited hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly raiment,
1 Timothy 2:15
but they shall be saved by the bearing of children, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with sobriety.
1 Timothy 3:2
A bishop, then, must be blame less, the husband of one wife, watchful, soberminded, modest, hospitable, able to teach,
1 Timothy 3:11
Their wives likewise must be grave, not slanderers, watchful, faithful in all things.
2 Timothy 4:5
But do you be watchful in all things, endure evil, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.?
Titus 2:6
Exhort the young men likewise to be sober-minded,
Titus 2:12
teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in the present age;
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand; be sober-minded, therefore, and watchful, that you may pray.
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be watchful: for your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.
Revelation 3:2
Be watchful, and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die; for I have not found your works perfect before God.
Revelation 16:15
Behold, I come as a thief: blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, that he may not walk naked, and that men may not see his nakedness.