 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.  Littell's Living Age - Pagina 1381850Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Oliver Reywood - 1826 - 626 pagina’s
...you out of the bed of sloth and security, and set yourselves to the work of God in good earnest ; " Let us not sleep as do others; but let us watch and...be sober; for they that sleep, sleep in the night," 1 Thess. v. 6, 7. It is very unbecoming persons professing the name of God to be secure and sinful... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1826 - 360 pagina’s
...before, than the God by whom they were chosen, and the faith to which they had been called : " We are not of the night, nor of darkness ; " therefore let...sleep, as do others, but " let us watch, and be sober." 1 Thess. v. 5, 6. " God hath from the beginning chosen " you to salvation ; therefore stand fast."... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pagina’s
...; ye are the children of light ;" and then follows one of the apostle's practical "there/ores" — "Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober." " Watch." We understand by this, careful attention to the things of God, alertness, a looking out for... | |
 | John Scott - 1826 - 608 pagina’s
...also, 1 Cor. xvi. 13. Watch ye, standfast in the faith, quit yourselves like men ; and 1 Thess. v. 6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober ; where the nature of the duty is plainly discovered by its opposite or contrary, Let us not sleep,... | |
 | Robert Wilson (A.M.) - 1826 - 236 pagina’s
...are not of the night nor of darkness," ver. 5. On this truth he grounds the duty of watchfulness. " Therefore let us not sleep, as do others ; but let us watch and be saber. For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.... | |
 | William Jones, William Stevens - 1826 - 474 pagina’s
...between shadows and substances ? THE TEXTS. Psalm xxxix. 6. Man walketh in a vain shadow. 1 Thess. v. 6. Let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch, and be sober. Eph. v. 14. Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Luke... | |
 | 1827 - 516 pagina’s
...overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of the light and the children of the day : we are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us...sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be tares, for it is only by searching that... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pagina’s
...should overtake you as a thief; ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day ; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us...sleep, sleep in the night ; and they that be drunken, .are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pagina’s
...flesh are manifest,—envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. 1 THES. v. 6—8 : Let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and...sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith... | |
 | 1827 - 600 pagina’s
...for to-morrow we die ;" • the other says, the " day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night, therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch 'and be sober." With what beautiful simplicity do those masters of poetry, Horace, Juvenal and Persius, speak of the... | |
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