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1 Thessalonians 5:5–7

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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.
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From verse 5

  1. Ephesians 5:8Rank 1 from verse 5
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    8For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

  2. Acts 26:18Rank 2 from verse 5
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    18To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

  3. John 12:36Rank 3 from verse 5
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    36While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light. These things spake Jesus, and departed, and did hide himself from them.

  4. Luke 16:8Rank 4 from verse 5
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    8And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

From verse 6

  1. 1 Peter 1:13Rank 1 from verse 6
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    13Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  2. Matthew 24:42Rank 2 from verse 6
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    42¶ Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

  3. Luke 22:46Rank 3 from verse 6
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    46And said unto them, Why sleep ye? rise and pray, lest ye enter into temptation.

  4. 1 Peter 5:8Rank 4 from verse 6
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    8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

  5. Romans 13:11–14Rank 5 from verse 6
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    11And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

    12The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

    13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

    14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

  6. Revelation 16:15Rank 6 from verse 6
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    15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

  7. 1 Corinthians 16:13Rank 7 from verse 6
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    13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

  8. Ephesians 5:14Rank 8 from verse 6
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    14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

  9. Mark 13:34–35Rank 9 from verse 6
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    34For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch.

    35Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning:

  10. Proverbs 19:15Rank 10 from verse 6
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    15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.

  11. Revelation 3:2Rank 11 from verse 6
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    2Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

  12. Titus 2:12Rank 12 from verse 6
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    12Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

  13. 1 Peter 4:7Rank 13 from verse 6
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    7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

  14. Colossians 4:2Rank 14 from verse 6
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    2Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;

  15. Ephesians 6:18Rank 15 from verse 6
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    18Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

  16. Isaiah 56:10Rank 16 from verse 6
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    10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

  17. Jonah 1:6Rank 17 from verse 6
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    6So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.

  18. Luke 12:37Rank 18 from verse 6
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    37Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

  19. Luke 12:39Rank 19 from verse 6
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    39And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

  20. Luke 21:36Rank 20 from verse 6
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    36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

  21. Matthew 13:25Rank 21 from verse 6
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    25But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

  22. Matthew 25:13Rank 22 from verse 6
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    13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.

  23. Matthew 25:5Rank 23 from verse 6
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    5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

  24. 1 Timothy 2:9Rank 24 from verse 6
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    9In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

  25. 2 Timothy 4:5Rank 25 from verse 6
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    5But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

  26. Mark 13:37Rank 26 from verse 6
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    37And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

  27. Mark 14:37–38Rank 27 from verse 6
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    37And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?

    38Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

  28. Matthew 26:40–41Rank 28 from verse 6
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    40And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?

    41Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

  29. 1 Timothy 3:2Rank 29 from verse 6
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    2A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

  30. Acts 20:31Rank 30 from verse 6
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    31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

  31. Titus 2:6Rank 31 from verse 6
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    6Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.

  32. 1 Corinthians 15:34Rank 32 from verse 6
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    34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

  33. 1 Thessalonians 5:8Rank 33 from verse 6
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    8But 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.

  34. 1 Timothy 3:11Rank 34 from verse 6
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    11Even so must their wives be grave, not slanderers, sober, faithful in all things.

  35. Matthew 26:38Rank 35 from verse 6
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    38Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.

  36. Philippians 4:5Rank 36 from verse 6
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    5Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

  37. 1 Timothy 2:15Rank 37 from verse 6
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    15Notwithstanding she shall be saved in childbearing, if they continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety.

From verse 7

  1. Romans 13:13Rank 1 from verse 7
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    13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

  2. 1 Corinthians 15:34Rank 2 from verse 7
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    34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

  3. 2 Peter 2:13Rank 3 from verse 7
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    13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;

  4. Acts 2:15Rank 4 from verse 7
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    15For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.

  5. Daniel 5:4–5Rank 5 from verse 7
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    4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

    5¶ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

  6. Ephesians 5:14Rank 6 from verse 7
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    14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

  7. Isaiah 21:4–5Rank 7 from verse 7
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    4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

    5Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

  8. Luke 21:34–35Rank 8 from verse 7
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    34¶ And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

    35For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

  9. Proverbs 23:29–35Rank 9 from verse 7
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    29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?

    30They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.

    31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

    32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

    33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

    34Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

    35They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.

  10. 1 Samuel 25:36–37Rank 10 from verse 7
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    36¶ And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

    37But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

  11. Job 33:15Rank 11 from verse 7
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    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

  12. Job 4:13Rank 12 from verse 7
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    13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

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DEFINED WORDS

1 Thessalonians 5:5

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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children

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Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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light

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Sense 1: Brightness or illumination. Sense 2: A source or opening that gives light. Sense 3: Figuratively, truth, knowledge, revelation, life, or favour contrasted with darkness. Sense 4: To illuminate or kindle. Sense 5: To alight or come upon. Sense 6: Slight, easy, swift, or not heavy.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

night

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1. The dark part of the daily cycle distinguished from day, from evening until morning, or any portion of it. 2. A time or condition compared with night or darkness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

darkness

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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

1 Thessalonians 5:6

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sleep

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Sense 1: Natural bodily rest with suspended waking activity; figuratively, inattention or inactivity; or death described as sleep. Sense 2: To rest in sleep; figuratively, to lie in death.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

watch

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Sense 1: To remain awake, alert, attentive, vigilant, observant, or on guard. Sense 2: A guard or guard duty, a station or group keeping guard, or a division of the night so guarded.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sober

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Self-controlled, watchful, and sound in judgment; calm and serious rather than intoxicated, frenzied, or careless.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

1 Thessalonians 5:7

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sleep

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Sense 1: Natural bodily rest with suspended waking activity; figuratively, inattention or inactivity; or death described as sleep. Sense 2: To rest in sleep; figuratively, to lie in death.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

night

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1. The dark part of the daily cycle distinguished from day, from evening until morning, or any portion of it. 2. A time or condition compared with night or darkness.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

drunken

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Intoxicated with strong drink; overcome or affected as by intoxication.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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5:1BUT of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

5:2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

5:3For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

5:4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

5:5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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5:6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

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5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

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5:8But 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.

5:9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

5:10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

5:11Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.

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