1 Thessalonians 5:7
for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;
Darby Translation
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 do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;
Cross References
Job 4:13In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men:
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who complaining? Who wounds without cause? Who 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 are not full of wine, as *ye* suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some are ignorant of God: I speak to you as a matter of shame.
2 Peter 2:13receiving [the] reward of unrighteousness; accounting ephemeral indulgence pleasure; spots and blemishes, rioting in their own deceits, 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 →