1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night;
Thomas Haweis 1795 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
6Let us not then sleep as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Acts 2:15for these men are not, as ye suppose, drunk, for it is only the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake as the righteous, and sin not; for some have an ignorance of God: I speak this to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13receiving the recompence of iniquity, counting daily luxury their pleasure; spots and blemishes, when they feast together with you; riotously indulging in their own delusions:
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 →