1 Thessalonians 5:6

So believers should not sleep spiritually but stay awake and self-controlled. Watchfulness and sobriety befit children of the day.

Cross-references · 37

• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• Matt 24:42Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
• Luke 22:46“Why are you sleeping?” He asked. “Get up and pray so that you will not enter into temptation.”
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
• Rom 13:11–14And do this, understanding the occasion. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, for our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who remains awake and clothed, so that he will not go naked and let his shame be exposed.”
• 1 Cor 16:13Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
• Eph 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Rev 3:2Wake up and strengthen what remains, which was about to die; for I have found your deeds incomplete in the sight of My God.
• Titus 2:12It instructs us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age,
• Mark 13:34–35It is like a man going on a journey who left his house, put each servant in charge of his own task, and instructed the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Prov 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• Col 4:2Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful,
• Matt 25:5When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
• Jonah 1:6The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
• Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.
• Luke 12:39But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
• Isa 56:10Israel’s watchmen are blind, they are all oblivious; they are all mute dogs, they cannot bark; they are dreamers lying around, loving to slumber.
• Eph 6:18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints.
• Matt 13:25But while everyone was asleep, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and slipped away.
• Matt 25:13Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.
• Luke 21:36So keep watch at all times, and pray that you may have the strength to escape all that is about to happen and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• 1 Tim 2:9Likewise, I want the women to adorn themselves with respectable apparel, with modesty, and with self-control, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or expensive clothes,
• Mark 13:37And what I say to you, I say to everyone: Keep watch!”
• Mark 14:37–38Then Jesus returned and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you asleep?” He asked. “Were you not able to keep watch for one hour?
• Matt 26:40–41Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.
• 2 Tim 4:5But you, be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
• 1 Tim 3:2An overseer, then, must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
• Acts 20:31Therefore be alert and remember that for three years I never stopped warning each of you night and day with tears.
• Titus 2:6In the same way, urge the younger men to be self-controlled.
• Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be apparent to all. The Lord is near.
• 1 Tim 3:11In the same way, the women must be dignified, not slanderers, but temperate and faithful in all things.
• Matt 26:38Then He said to them, “My soul is consumed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch with Me.”
• 1 Th 5:8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
• 1 Cor 15:34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
• 1 Tim 2:15Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

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