1 Thessalonians 5:6 (WEB)
so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
Catechism · 1
“The Holy Spirit constantly seeks to awaken us to keep watch.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. 1 Cor 16:13; Col 4:2; 1 Thess 5:6; 1 Pet 5:8.
Fathers and councils · 3
Augustine of Hippo
“…us watch and be sober: for they who sleep, sleep in the night; and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night: but let us who are of the day, be sober.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 6–8
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Clement of Alexandria
“For ye are all children of the light, and children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of the darkness.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 5–8.
Read the whole comment“But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as an helmet the hope of salvation.”” — editor's note: 1 Thess. v. 6–8.
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Cross-references · 12
Cited together in The Instructor II.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.9.
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Cited together in The Instructor II.9.
Cited together in The Instructor II.9.
Cited together in On the Holy Trinity XV.9.