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1 Thessalonians 5:7
7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
1 Thessalonians 5:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
- New International Version (NIV)For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
Context of 1 Thessalonians 5:7
5For you all are sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night or of darkness— 6so then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain on the alert and sober-minded. For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8But since we are of the day, let us be sober-minded—putting on the breastplate of faithfulness and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. 9For God did not destine us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
Read all of 1 Thessalonians 51 Thessalonians 5:7 word by word
οἱ γὰρ καθεύδοντες νυκτὸς καθεύδουσιν καὶ οἱ μεθυσκόμενοι νυκτὸς μεθύουσιν·Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for 1 Thessalonians 5:7
- Job 4:13Amid unsettling visions in the night, when a deep sleep falls on men,
- Job 33:15“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, as they slumber in bed,
- Luke 21:34“But watch out so your hearts are not weighed down by carousing, strong drink, and the worries of life. Do not let that day come upon you suddenly like a trap.
- Romans 13:13Let us walk properly as in the day—not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and envy.
- 1 Corinthians 15:34Come to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God—I say this to your shame.
- Ephesians 5:14for everything made visible is light. This is why it says, “Wake up, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Messiah will shine on you.”
- 1 Samuel 25:36Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was holding a banquet in his house like that of a king—Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was quite drunk. So she told him nothing at all until daybreak.
- Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has fights? Who has complaining? Who has bruises for no reason? Who has red eyes?
- Isaiah 21:4My heart is bewildered, terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling.
- Daniel 5:4They drank the wine and praised the gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.
- Acts 2:15These men are not drunk, as you suppose—for it’s only the third hour of the day!
- 2 Peter 2:13They will be paid back for what they have done—evil for evil. They consider carousing in broad daylight a pleasure. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceitful pleasures while feasting together with you.
Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 5:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7For they that sleep - Sleepers and drunkards seek the night season; so the careless and the profligate persons indulge their evil propensities, and avoid all means of instruction; they prefer their ignorance to the word of God's grace, and to the light of life. There seems to be here an allusion to the opinion mentioned under 1 Thessalonians 5:4; (note), to which the reader is requested to refer. It may be remarked, also, that it was accounted doubly…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7For they that sleep, sleep in the night - Night is the time for sleep. The day is the time for action, and in the light of day people should be employed. Night and sleep are made for each other, and so are the day and active employment. The meaning here is, that it is in accordance with the character of those who are of the night, that is, sinners, to be sunk in stupidity and carnal security, as if they were asleep; but for the children of the day, that…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-11Verses 6-11 Most of mankind do not consider the things of another world at all, because they are asleep; or they do not consider them aright, because they sleep and dream. Our moderation as to all earthly things should be known to all men. Shall Christians, who have the light of the blessed gospel shining in their faces, be careless about their souls, and unmindful of another world? We need the spiritual armour, or the three Christian graces, faith, love…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7Sleep means being lazy in morals (5:6). Being drunk is a metaphor for lacking self-control. The day of the Lord will surprise these people (5:4; Matthew 24:48–51).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. This verse is to be taken in the literal sense. Night is the time when sleepers sleep, and drinking men are drunk. To sleep by day would imply great indolence; to be drunken by day, great shamelessness. Now, in a spiritual sense, "we Christians profess to be day people, not night people; therefore our work ought to be day work, not night work; our conduct such as will bear the eye of day, and such has no need of the veil of night" [Edmunds], (1Th 5:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
- Burkitt’s Expository Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Family Bible Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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