1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
Berean Standard Bible
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 the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
Cross References
Job 4:13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
Daniel 5:4As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
Acts 2:15These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!
1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as 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 →