1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that slepe slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken are dronken in the nyght.
Tyndale New Testament
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
6Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but let vs watch and be sober.
Cross References
Acts 2:15These are not dronken as ye suppose: for it is yet but the thyrde houre of the daye.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake truely out of slepe and synne not. For some have not the knowlege of God. I speake this vnto youre rebuke.
2 Peter 2:13and receave the rewarde of vnrightewesnes. They count it pleasure to live deliciously for a season. Spottes they are and filthines livinge at pleasure and in disceaveable wayes feastynge 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 →