1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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
6Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Acts 2:15For these men are not drunk, as you suppose: for it is the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake, as you should, to soberness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13and receive the reward of unrighteousness. Counting it a pleasure to riot in the day-time, they are spots and stains, rioting in their delusions, while feasting 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 →