1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are inebriated, are inebriated in the night.
Catholic Public Domain 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
6Therefore, let us not sleep, as the rest do. Instead, we should be vigilant and sober.
Cross References
Job 4:13In the horror of a vision by night, when men are accustomed to be overtaken by a deep sleep,
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Whose father has woe? Who has quarrels? Who falls into pits? Who has wounds without cause? Who has watery eyes?
Daniel 5:4They drank wine, and they praised their gods of gold, and silver, brass, iron, and wood and stone.
Acts 2:15For these men are not inebriated, as you suppose, for it is the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Be vigilant, you just ones, and do not be willing to sin. For certain persons have an ignorance of God. I say this to you with respect.
2 Peter 2:13receiving the reward of injustice, the fruition of valuing the delights of the day: defilements and stains, overflowing with self-indulgences, taking pleasure in their feasts 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 →