1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
American Standard 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
6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath 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 drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
2 Peter 2:13suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast 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 →