1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
Montgomery 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
6So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled.
Cross References
Acts 2:15"These men are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only nine o’clock in the morning.
1 Corinthians 15:34Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.
2 Peter 2:13suffering wrong as the wage of wrong which they have done. These are men who count it pleasure to carouse in open daylight; they are spots and blemishes reveling in their deceit, even while they are 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 →