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, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Matt 24:42Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• Luke 22:46and said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”
• 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
• Rom 13:11–14Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
• Rev 16:15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
• 1 Cor 16:13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Rev 3:2Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
• Titus 2:12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;
• Mark 13:34–35“It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
• Prov 19:15Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
• Col 4:2Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving;
• Matt 25:5Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
• Jonah 1:6So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
• Luke 12:37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most certainly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
• Luke 12:39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
• Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Eph 6:18with all prayer and requests, praying at all times in the Spirit, and being watchful to this end in all perseverance and requests for all the saints:
• Matt 13:25but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
• Luke 21:36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
• 1 Tim 2:9In the same way, that women also adorn themselves in decent clothing, with modesty and propriety; not just with braided hair, gold, pearls, or expensive clothing;
• Mark 13:37What I tell you, I tell all: Watch.”
• Mark 14:37–38He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you watch one hour?
• Matt 26:40–41He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What, couldn’t you watch with me for one hour?
• 2 Tim 4:5But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfill your ministry.
• 1 Tim 3:2The overseer therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sensible, modest, hospitable, good at teaching;
• Acts 20:31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
• Titus 2:6Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded;
• Phil 4:5Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
• 1 Tim 3:11Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• Matt 26:38Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
• 1 Th 5:8But 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 Cor 15:34Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
• 1 Tim 2:15but she will be saved through her childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and sanctification with sobriety.

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