1 Thessalonians 5:7
for the lying-asleep are-lying-asleep of{night} and the being-drunk are-being-drunk of{night}.
Garth's Hyper-literal Translation
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
Cross References
Acts 2:15for not as you are-taking-under, 'the-same[plural] are-being-drunk,' for it-is-being [the] third hour of{the day}.
1 Corinthians 15:34Sober-out justly and do_not_be-sinning, for some are-having without-know-ia/ignorance of{God}. I-am-speaking toward turn-in[i.e. self-reflection] to{you}.
2 Peter 2:13will-attend-ize[ing] wage of{injustice}, governing/guiding/directing/mandating/decreeing pleasure, the luxury in to{day}, spots/marks and blemishes, luxuriating-in in to{the deceits} of{same[plural]}, having-selves-well-together[i.e. reveling/partying together] to{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 →