1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who drink freely, drink at night.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.
Cross References
Acts 2:15For this is not intoxication, as you suppose, it being only the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34Wake from this drunken fit; live righteous lives, and cease to sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak thus in order to move you to shame.
2 Peter 2:13being doomed to receive a requital for their guilt. They reckon it pleasure to feast daintily in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, while feeding luxuriously at their love-feasts, and banqueting 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 →