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


In Context

3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail on a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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

7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

1 Thessalonians 5:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Therefore let us not sleep, as [do] others; but let us watch and be sober.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:6So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self- controlled.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:6Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch, and be sober.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:6so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,