1 Thessalonians 5:6 Cross References - Riverside

⁶ Then let us not be sleeping like the rest of men, but let us watch and be sober.

²⁵ But while people were sleeping his enemy came and sowed weeds through the wheat, and went away.

⁴² Watch, therefore, for you do not know what day your Master is coming.

⁵ As the bridegroom was late in coining, all grew drowsy and slept.

¹³ Watch, therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour.

³⁸ He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sad, even to death. Stay here and watch with me."

⁴⁰ Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "So you could not watch one hour with me! ⁴¹ Watch and pray so as not to enter into temptation. Your spirit is eager, but your flesh is weak."

³⁴ It is just as when a man going abroad leaves his house and gives to his servants authority and to each his work and commands the porter to watch. ³⁵ Watch, therefore, for you do not know when the Master of the house will come, whether at evening or at midnight or at cock-crowing or in the morning.

³⁷ What I say to you, I say to all, Watch."

³⁷ Then he came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? ³⁸ Watch and pray that you may not fall into temptation. The spirit is eager, but the flesh is weak."

³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the Master, when he comes, will find watching! Truly I tell you he will gird himself and make them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.

³⁹ But know this, if the householder had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

³⁶ Be watchful at every season in prayer that you may be able to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."

⁴⁶ He said to them, "Why are you sleeping? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."

³¹ Therefore watch, remembering that for three years I never ceased night nor day to exhort each one of you with tears.

¹¹ Live thus because you know this crisis, for it is already time for you to awake from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers. ¹² The night is far spent, the day draws near. Let us put away the deeds of darkness, let us put on the weapons of light. ¹³ Let us live becomingly as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in sensuality and licentiousness, not in quarrelling and jealousy. ¹⁴ But put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for gratifying physical passions.

³⁴ Return to soberness and cease to sin, for some are ignorant of God. I say it to your shame.

¹³ Watch, stand firmly in the faith, be manly, be strong,

¹⁴ Therefore it says, "Wake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead and Christ will give you light."

¹⁸ Pray at all times in the Spirit with all manner of prayer and entreaty; be awake to this with all intentness and with prayer for all the holy

⁵ Let your fairness be known to all men. The Lord is near.

² Be earnest and constant in prayer. Be thankfully watchful in it.

⁸ But let us who are of the day be sober. Let us put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

⁹ Also that the women adorn themselves in becoming dress modestly and discreetly, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothes,

¹⁵ But they will be saved through child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and holiness with self-control.

² A bishop, then, should be above reproach, true to one woman, temperate, self-controlled, dignified, hospitable, with a gift for teaching,

¹¹ Women, in the same way, must be dignified, not slanderers, temperate, trustworthy in everything.

⁵ But you must be calm in all circumstances, suffer hardships, do the work of a bringer of the good news, carry out fully all the duties of your office.

⁶ Urge the younger men, in the same way, to practice self-control in everything.

¹² teaching us to renounce all irreligion and worldly passions and to live soberly, justly and piously in this present world,

¹³ Therefore brace up your minds, be calm and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

⁷ The end of all things is near. Therefore be serious and sober and give yourselves to prayer.

⁸ Be sober, watch. Your enemy the Devil, like a roaring lion, goes about seeking some one to devour.

² Become watchful and strengthen the things that remain, which are about to die. For I have not found any works of yours complete before my God.

¹⁵ ( "I am coming like a thief. Blessed is he who is watching and keeping his garments so that he may not go naked and people see his shame!")