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NASB					1 Thess 5:6 so⁶⁸⁶ then⁶⁸⁶ let us not ^Asleep²⁵¹⁸ as ¹ ^Bothers³⁰⁶² do, but let us be alert¹¹²⁷ and ² ^Csober³⁵²⁵.
AMPLIFIED 2015					1 Thess 5:6 So then let us not sleep [in spiritual indifference] as the rest [of the world does], but let us keep wide awake [alert and cautious] and let us be sober [self-controlled, calm, and wise].

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Or self-controlled

NASB Cross References:
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Rom 13:11 ¶ Do this, knowing the time, that it is already the hour for you to awaken from sleep; for now salvation is nearer to us than when we believed.

Eph 2:3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

1 Pet 1:13 ¶ Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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686

ara; a prim. particle; therefore (an illative particle):--fact(1), perhaps(2), possible(1), so(4), so then(12), then(22), therefore(3), well then(1).

1127

grêgoreô; formed from perf. of 1453; to be awake, to watch:--alert(10), awake(1), keep(1), keep watch(4), keep watching(1), keeping alert(1), stay on the alert(1), stays awake(1), wake(2).

2518

katheudô; from 2596 and heudô (to sleep); to sleep:--asleep(8), do their sleeping(1), goes to bed(1), sleep(3), sleep do(1), sleeper(1), sleeping(8).

3062

loipos; from 3007; the rest, the remaining:--beyond(1), else(2), finally(6), future(1), moreover(1), now(2), other(1), other matters(1), other people(1), other things(1), other women(1), others(4), remaining(2), rest(26), still(2), then(1), things that remain(1), time onward(1).

3525

nêphô; a prim. word; to be sober, to abstain from wine:--keep sober(1), sober(5).

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