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1 Thessalonians 5:6

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
1 Thessalonians 5:6 · King James Version

In other versions

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

    ASV

  • So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

    BBE

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

    DBY

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

    WEB

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

    YLT

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

    ENG

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

    WBT

  • So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

    BSB

In context

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

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

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

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

8But 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.

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