1 Thessalonians 5:6

Weymouth NT

So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.

Cross References

Matthew 13:25

but during the night his enemy comes, and over the first seed he sows darnel among the wheat, and goes away.

Matthew 24:42

Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.

Matthew 25:13

»Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.«

Matthew 25:5

The bridegroom was a long time in coming, so that meanwhile they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

Matthew 26:38

and He said to them, »My soul is crushed with anguish to the very point of death; wait here, and keep awake with me.«

Mark 13:37

Moreover, what I say to you I say to all–Be wakeful!«

Luke 12:37

Blessed are those servants, whom their Master when He comes shall find on the watch. I tell you in solemn truth, that He will tie an apron round Him, and will bid them recline at table while He comes and waits on them.

Luke 12:39

Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Luke 21:36

But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man.«

Luke 22:46

»Why are you sleeping?« He said; »stand up; and pray that you may not come into temptation.«

Acts 20:31

Therefore be on the alert; and remember that, night and day, for three years, I never ceased admonishing every one, even with tears.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

Ephesians 2:3

Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.

Ephesians 5:14

For this reason it is said, »Rise, sleeper; rise from among the dead, and Christ will shed light upon you.«

Ephesians 6:18

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

Philippians 4:5

Let your forbearing spirit be known to every one–the Lord is near.

Colossians 4:2

Be earnest and unwearied in prayer, being on the alert in it and in your giving of thanks.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Now, concerning those who from time to time pass away, we would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, lest you should mourn as others do who have no hope.

1 Thessalonians 5:10

who died on our behalf, so that whether we are awake or are sleeping we may share His Life.

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, belonging –as we do– to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1 Timothy 2:15

Yet a woman will be brought safely through childbirth if she and her husband continue to live in faith and love and growing holiness, with habitual self-restraint.

1 Timothy 2:9

and I would have the women dress becomingly, with modesty and self-control, not with plaited hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes,

1 Timothy 3:11

Deaconesses, in the same way, must be sober-minded women, not slanderers, but in every way temperate and trustworthy.

1 Timothy 3:2

A minister then must be a man of irreproachable character, true to his one wife, temperate, sober-minded, well-behaved, hospitable to strangers, and with a gift for teaching;

2 Timothy 4:5

But as for you, you must exercise habitual self-control, and not live a self-indulgent life, but do the duty of an evangelist and fully discharge the obligations of your office.

Titus 2:12

training us to renounce ungodliness and all the pleasures of this world, and to live sober, upright, and pious lives at the present time,

Titus 2:6

In the same way exhort the younger men to be discreet,

1 Peter 1:13

Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-appearing of Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 4:7

But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

1 Peter 5:8

Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.

Revelation 16:15

(»I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the man who keeps awake and guards his raiment for fear he walk about ill-clad, and his uncomeliness become manifest.«)

Revelation 3:2

Rouse yourself and keep awake, and strengthen those things which remain but have well-nigh perished; for I have found no doings of yours free from imperfection in the sight of My God.