1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they who sleep, in the night sleep; and they who are drunken, in the night are drunken.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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
6Sleep we not, therefore, as the rest; but be wakeful and sober.
Cross References
Acts 2:15For not as you suppose are these drunken; for, behold, until now are three hours.
1 Corinthians 15:34AWAKEN your hearts rightly, and sin not; for there are some who have not the knowledge of Aloha; to your shame I say it.
2 Peter 2:13while they in whom is iniquity the wages of iniquity shall receive. They repute as pleasure the luxury which is in the day. Blemishes (are they), full of spots, who delighting in their refreshments are luxurious:
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 →