1 Thessalonians 5:7
for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,
Young's Literal Translation
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, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,
Cross References
Job 4:13In thoughts from visions of the night, In the falling of deep sleep on men,
Proverbs 23:29Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
Daniel 5:4they have drunk wine, and have 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 ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.
1 Corinthians 15:34awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say [it].
2 Peter 2:13about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting 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 →