1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who get drunk, get drunk in the night.
Revised King James 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
6Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober.
Cross References
Acts 2:15For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awaken to sobriety, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, revelling in their own deceptions 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 →