1 Thessalonians 5:7
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
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 an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Compare
- BSB
- For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
- KJV
- For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
- WEB
- For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
- ASV
- For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
- DARBY
- for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;
- BLB
- For those sleeping, sleep by night; and those becoming drunk, get drunk by night.
- ÅB
- De som sover, sover jo om natten, og de som drikker seg drukne, er drukne om natten;
- OTB
- For de som sover, gjør det om natten, og de som blir fulle, gjør det om natten.
- B1930
- De som sover, sover jo om natten, og de som drikker sig drukne, er drukne om natten;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Read in context2 Peter 2:13
And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Read in contextActs 2:15
For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
Read in contextDaniel 5:4–5
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
Read in contextLuke 21:34–35
And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Read in contextIsaiah 21:4–5
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Read in contextEphesians 5:14
Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
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