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1 Thessalonians 5:7

for they, that sleep, sleep in the night; and drunkards are drunk in the night:

1770 John Worsley NT

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 like others, but let us watch and be sober:

8but let us, who are of the day, be sober; putting on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

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Cross References

Acts 2:15for these men are not drunk, as ye suppose; for it is but the third hour of the day.

1 Corinthians 15:34Behave soberly, as ye ought to do, and sin not: for some of you have not the knowledge of God; to your shame I speak it.

2 Peter 2:13who account it a pleasure to riot even in the day; spots and disgraces; revelling in their frauds, while they partake of 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 →

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