Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, 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.
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].
Anderson New Testament
Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.
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 for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness; 6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
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Cross References
Luke 22:46
and said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Matthew 24:42
Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
Romans 13:11-14
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.
Proverbs 19:15
Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
Jonah 1:6
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.
Matthew 13:25
but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares also among the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 25:5
Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
Matthew 25:13
Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:38
Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.
Matthew 26:40-41
And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:34-35
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.
Mark 13:37
And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Mark 14:37-38
And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour?
Luke 12:37
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.
Luke 12:39
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to be broken through.
Luke 21:36
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.
Acts 20:31
Wherefore watch ye, remembering that by the space of three years I ceased not to admonish every one night and day with tears.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he'saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
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,
Philippians 4:5
Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
Colossians 4:2
Continue stedfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
1 Timothy 2:9
In like manner, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
1 Timothy 2:15
but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
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;
1 Timothy 3:11
Women in like manner must be grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
2 Timothy 4:5
But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.
Titus 2:6
the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:
Titus 2:12
instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
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.
Revelation 16:15
(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walked naked, and they see his shame.)