1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
Bible in Basic English
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 take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.
Cross References
Job 4:13In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,
Proverbs 23:29Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
Daniel 5:4They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
Acts 2:15For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;
1 Corinthians 15:34Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
2 Peter 2:13For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
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 →