1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Updated King James Version
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 do others; 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 contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of 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 all of you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
2 Peter 2:13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceits 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 →