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


In Context

3 For when they are saying, |Peace and safety,| then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

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

7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

8 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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