1 Thessalonians 5:7
“For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.”
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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.
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Related Verses
“Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.”
“Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.”
“But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.”
“For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.”
“Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.”