1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
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 sleep, as others; but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Acts 2:15For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, for it is the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God. I say it to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13receiving the wages of unrighteousness, as they who account reveling for a day pleasure; spots, and blemishes, reveling in their own deceits 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 →