1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
6dummy verses inserted by amos
Cross References
Job 4:13In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
Daniel 5:4They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone.
Acts 2:15For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day:
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God, I speak it to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting 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 →