The most popular Bible verses from 1 Thessalonians 5

Found 28 Verses

1 Thessalonians 5:6

Bible Rank: 692

So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. NIV

Accordingly then, let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us keep wide awake (alert, watchful, cautious, and on our guard) and let us be sober (calm, collected, and circumspect). AMP

Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Bible Rank: 763

May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. NIV

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah). AMP

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:17

Bible Rank: 995

Pray continually, NIV

Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly] AMP

Pray without ceasing. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Bible Rank: 1,185

But test them all; hold on to what is good NIV

But test and prove all things [until you can recognize] what is good; [to that] hold fast. AMP

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:16

Bible Rank: 1,206

Rejoice always NIV

Be happy [in your faith] and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always) AMP

Rejoice evermore. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Bible Rank: 1,483

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. NIV

Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will]. AMP

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:7

Bible Rank: 2,005

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. NIV

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk, get drunk at night. AMP

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Bible Rank: 2,291

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. NIV

Therefore encourage (admonish, exhort) one another and edify (strengthen and build up) one another, just as you are doing. AMP

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:8

Bible Rank: 2,342

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. NIV

But we belong to the day; therefore, let us be sober and put on the breastplate (corslet) of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation. AMP

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. KJV

1 Thessalonians 5:1

Bible Rank: 2,367

Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, NIV

BUT AS to the suitable times and the precise seasons and dates, brethren, you have no necessity for anything being written to you. AMP

But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. KJV