1 Thessalonians 5:7
It is at night that men sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk.
Twentieth Century 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. No, let us be watchful and self-controlled.
Cross References
Acts 2:15These men are not drunk, as you suppose; for it is only now nine in the morning! No!
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.
2 Peter 2:13suffering themselves, as the penalty for the suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace, indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at your feasts.
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 →