A moment in scripture
1 Thessalonians 5:6
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Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
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The surrounding passage
- 1 Thessalonians 5:4
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:5
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:8
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.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.