1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they who sleep, sleep in the night; and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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 therefore sleep, like others; but let us be vigilant and considerate.
Cross References
Acts 2:15For these are not intoxicated, as ye suppose: for lo, it is yet but the third hour.
1 Corinthians 15:34Let your hearts be righteously excited, and sin not: for there are some, in whom is not the love of God: it is to your shame, I say it.
2 Peter 2:13they being persons with whom iniquity is the reward of iniquity, and by them rioting in the daytime is accounted delightful; defiled and full of spots are they, indulging themselves at their ease, while they give themselves up to pleasure;
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 →