1 Thessalonians 5:7 “For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drun…”

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

Darby Translation

for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

Young's Literal Translation

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

Bible in Basic English

For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

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Cross references

“they that sleep”

Romans 13:13 1 Corinthians 15:34 Ephesians 5:14 Job 4:13 Job 33:15 Luke 21:34

Romans 13:13 · BSB

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 15:34 · BSB

Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14 · BSB

So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Job 4:13 · BSB

In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

Job 33:15 · BSB

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

Luke 21:34 · BSB

But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare.

“and they”

2 Peter 2:13 Acts 2:15 Proverbs 23:29–35 1 Samuel 25:36 1 Samuel 25:37 Isaiah 21:4

2 Peter 2:13 · BSB

The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.

Acts 2:15 · BSB

These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!

Proverbs 23:29–35 · BSB

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?

1 Samuel 25:36 · BSB

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.

1 Samuel 25:37 · BSB

In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these events, and his heart failed within him, and he became like a stone.

Isaiah 21:4 · BSB

My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.

8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

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