1 Thessalonians 5:7

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.”

— WEB

“For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.”

— KJV

“For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.”

— ASV

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Cross-references

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Romans 13:13 "Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and j…"
1 Corinthians 15:34 "Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame."
2 Peter 2:13 "receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit…"
Acts 2:15 "For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.about 9:00 a.m."
Daniel 5:4-5 "They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone."
Luke 21:34-35 "“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you sud…"
Ephesians 5:14 "Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”"
Proverbs 23:29-35 "Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?"

Commentary

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], (Th1 5:8).

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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