1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are intoxicated get drunk at night.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
In Context
6So then let us not sleep, as also the others, but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Daniel 5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Acts 2:15For these men are not drunken, as ye suppose, for it is the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
2 Peter 2:13getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11
Watchfulness and Sobriety. ( a. d. 51.) 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. On… Read the whole commentary →