1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
New Heart English Bible
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 sleep, as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night,when deep sleep falls on men,
Proverbs 23:29Who has woe?Who has sorrow?Who has strife?Who has complaints?Who has needless bruises?Who has bloodshot eyes?
Daniel 5:4They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Acts 2:15For these are not drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13suffering the penalty as the wages of evil; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast 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 →