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What does 1 Thessalonians 5:6 mean?
"so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober."
— 1 Thessalonians 5:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
But 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.
For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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