6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Thess 5:6 — Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
• Acts 20:9 — And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken
• Isa 56:10 — His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
• Luke 21:34 — And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Mark 14:37 — And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
• Mark 14:40 — And when he returned, he found them asleep again, (for their eyes were heavy,) neither wist they what to answer him.
• Matt 24:48 — But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
• Matt 25:5 — While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
• Prov 6:9 — How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
• Prov 24:33 — Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
• Rev 3:3 — Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon th
• Rom 13:11 — And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.