1 Thessalonians 5:6 (GNV)

Passage

Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.

Nearby Context

1 Thessalonians 5:4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shall come on you, as it were a thiefe.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse.

1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "therefore", "sleepe", "other", "watch", and "sober". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "therefore" and "sleepe", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 5's "Yee are all the children of light..." into verse 7's "For they that sleepe sleepe in the...", so "therefore" and "sleepe" belong inside that flow. In 1 Thessalonians context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "therefore" and "sleepe" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.