1 Thessalonians 5:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Accordingly then, let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us keep wide awake (alert, watchful, cautious, and on our guard) and let us be sober (calm, collected, and circumspect).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

Common English Bible

⁶ So then, let’s not sleep like the others, but let’s stay awake and stay sober.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.

1 Thessalonians 5:6 Cross References

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore prepare your minds for action; discipline yourselves; set all your hope on the grace that Jesus Christ will bring you when he is revealed.

Matthew 24:42

Keep awake, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming.

Luke 22:46

and he said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not come into the time of trial.”

1 Peter 5:8

Discipline yourselves; keep alert. Like a roaring lion your adversary the devil prowls around, looking for someone to devour.

Revelation 16:15

(“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed, not going about naked and exposed to shame.”)

Titus 2:12

training us to renounce impiety and worldly passions and in the present age to live lives that are self-controlled, upright, and godly,

Ephesians 5:14

for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Revelation 3:2

Wake up and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God.

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is near; therefore be serious and discipline yourselves for the sake of your prayers.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Keep alert; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.

1 Timothy 2:9

also that the women should dress themselves in moderate clothing with reverence and self-control, not with their hair braided or with gold, pearls, or expensive clothes,

Proverbs 19:15

Laziness brings on deep sleep; an idle person will suffer hunger.

Titus 2:6

Likewise, urge the younger men to be self-controlled

1 Timothy 3:2

Now a bishop must be above reproach, married only once, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher,

Colossians 4:2

Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with thanksgiving.

Ephesians 6:18

Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints.

Luke 21:36

Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength to escape all these things that will take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”

Luke 12:39

“But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Matthew 25:13

Keep awake, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Matthew 25:5

As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept.

Matthew 13:25

but while everybody was asleep an enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat and then went away.

Jonah 1:6

The captain came and said to him, “What are you doing sound asleep? Get up; call on your god! Perhaps the god will spare us a thought so that we do not perish.”

2 Timothy 4:5

As for you, be sober in everything, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, carry out your ministry fully.

1 Timothy 3:11

Women likewise must be serious, not slanderers, but temperate, faithful in all things.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

Philippians 4:5

Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Acts 20:31

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years I did not cease night or day to warn everyone with tears.

Luke 12:37

Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them.

Mark 13:37

And what I say to you I say to all: Keep awake.”

Matthew 26:38

Then he said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, even to death; remain here, and stay awake with me.”

Isaiah 56:10

Israel’s sentinels are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

1 Timothy 2:15

Yet she will be saved through childbearing, provided they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

Ephesians 2:3

All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,

1 Thessalonians 4:13

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him.