1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.
Geneva Bible 1599
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
6Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.
Cross References
Job 4:13In the thoughtes of ye visions of the night, when sleepe falleth on men,
Proverbs 23:29To whome is woe? to whome is sorowe? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are woundes without cause? and to whome is the rednesse of the eyes?
Daniel 5:4They drunke wine and praysed the gods of golde, and of siluer, of brasse, of yron, of wood and of stone.
Acts 2:15For these are not drunken, as yee suppose, since it is but the third houre of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to liue righteously, and sinne not: for some haue not ye knowledge of God, I speake this to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13And shall receiue the wages of vnrighteousnes, as they which count it pleasure dayly to liue deliciously. Spottes they are and blottes, deliting them selues in their deceiuings, in feasting 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 →