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Live Out Your Identity
Commentators stress that this verse is a logical command based on a believer's identity. Because Christians are 'children of the day' (v. 5), it is unnatural for them to 'sleep' in spiritual carelessness. The exhortation is to live a life that is consistent with this new nature—one of alertness and awareness, not the indifference that characterizes 'the rest' who belong to the night.
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1 Thessalonians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6
18th Century
Theologian
Therefore let us not sleep as others do. As the wicked world does. ().
But let us watch. That is, for the coming of the Lo…
AT Robertson
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6
So then (αρα ουν). Two inferential particles, accordingly therefore, as in 2 Thessalonians 2:15 and only in Paul in N.…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6
19th Century
Bishop
Let us not sleep.—The metaphor here expresses not so much actual sin (Ephesians 5:14) as carelessness in spir…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6–7
19th Century
Preacher
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.
Even in P…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6
Verse 5 provides a solid basis for the ethical behavior Paul now urges on the Thessalonians. Paul calls them to a lifestyle free from moral laxity.…
John Calvin
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6
16th Century
Theologian
Therefore let us not sleep. He adds other metaphors closely allied to the preceding one. For as he recently showed that it would by no mea…
John Gill
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6
17th Century
Pastor
Therefore let us not sleep as do others
&c.] As the rest of the Gentiles, as unconverted persons, who are in a state…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Thessalonians 5:6–11
17th Century
Minister
Most of humankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them correctly, because they…