Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore let us not sleep, as also 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.
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].
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.
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 Ye are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as also the rest; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they sleeping sleep in the night; and they drunken are drunken in the night.
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Cross References
Luke 22:46
And he said to them, Why sleep ye? having risen, pray that ye might not enter into temptation.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, living abstemiously, hope perfectly upon the grace brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Matthew 24:42
Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord comes.
Romans 13:11-14
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.
Proverbs 19:15
Sloth will cast a deep sleep; and the soul of sloth shall hunger.
Isaiah 56:10
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.
Jonah 1:6
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.
Matthew 13:25
And in men's sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares in the midst of the wheat, and went away.
Matthew 25:5
And the bridegroom delaying, they all slumbered and slept.
Matthew 25:13
Watch, therefore, for ye know not the day, neither the hour, in which the Son of man comes.
Matthew 26:38
Then says he to them, My soul is sorely grieved, even to death: remain here, and watch ye with me.
Matthew 26:40-41
And he comes to his disciples, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, So were ye not able to watch with me one hour?
Mark 13:34-35
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.
Mark 13:37
And what I say to you, I say to all, Watch ye.
Mark 14:37-38
And he comes, and finds them sleeping, and says to Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldeat thou not watch one Hour?
Luke 12:37
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.
Luke 12:39
And know this, that if the master of the house knew what hour the thief is coming, he had watched, and not have suffered his house to be undermined.
Luke 21:36
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.
Acts 20:31
Wherefore watch ye, remembering that the space of three years night and day I ceased not reminding each one with tears.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Recover your senses rightly, and in not; for some have a want of knowledge of God: I speak to your confusion.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Watch ye, stand in the faith, be manly, be strengthened..
Ephesians 5:14
Wherefore he says, Awake, who sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten thee.
Ephesians 6:18
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:
Philippians 4:5
Let your fitness be known to all men. The Lord is near.
Colossians 4:2
In prayer persevere, watching in it in gratitude
1 Thessalonians 5:8
And we, being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the coat of mail of faith and love; and a helmet, the hope of salvation.
1 Timothy 2:9
And likewise the women in well-arranged simplicity, with modesty and discretion, arrange themselves; not in tresses, or gold, or pearls, or expensive clothing;
1 Timothy 2:15
And she shall be saved through the bringing forth children, if they remain in faith and love and consecration with discretion.
1 Timothy 3:2
Therefore an overseer must be irreprehensible, husband of one wife, sober, of sound mind, well arranged, hospitable, giving instruction;
1 Timothy 3:11
Wives also grave, not accusers, sober, faithful in all things.
2 Timothy 4:5
And thou be sober in all things, suffer ill treatment, do the work of the bearer of good news, render thy service perfectly certain.
Titus 2:6
The younger men likewise beseech to be of sound mind.
Titus 2:12
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and eager worldly desires, we should live discreetly, and justly, and religiously, in the time now;
1 Peter 4:7
And the end of all has drawn near: be ye therefore of sound mind, and live abstemiously in prayers.
1 Peter 5:8
Be abstemious, watch; for your adversary the accuser, as a roaring lion, walks around, seeking whom he might swallow down:
Revelation 3:2
Be watching, and make firm the remaining things, which are about to die: For I have not found thy works perfected before God.
Revelation 16:15
(Behold, I come as a thief. Happy he watching, and keeping his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)