1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night;
Noyes 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
6Let us not sleep, then, as others, but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Job 4:13Amid thoughts from visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men,
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who contentions? Who anxiety? Who wounds without cause? Who dimness 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; for it is the third hour of the day;
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake, as is your duty, 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. Counting it pleasure to riot in the day-time, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceits 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 →