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1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those sleeping, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, get drunk in the night:

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

6then therefore let us not sleep like the rest, but watch and be sober.

8but let us, who are of the day, be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and divine love; and the helmet, the hope of salvation:

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Cross References

Acts 2:15For these are not drunken, as you suppose; for it is the third hour of the day;

1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak to your shame.

2 Peter 2:13receiving the reward of unrighteousness, esteeming pleasure which is in the daytime; luxury; spots and blemishes, swelling in their deceits, feasting along 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 →

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