So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.

For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, that, even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, - even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are falling asleep, - lest ye be sorrowing, even as the rest also, who are without hope;

they that are sober take their rest in the night, whilst they that are sots, are drunk in the night: