KJV King James Version
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
WEB World English Bible
For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
ASV American Standard Version
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,
Surrounding context — 1 Thessalonians 5
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
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.
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 an 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.
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Romans 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.2 Peter 2:13And 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;1 Corinthians 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak [this] to your shame.Acts 2:15For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day.Daniel 5:4-5They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.Isaiah 21:4-5My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.Proverbs 23:29-35Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?Luke 21:34-35And 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.Ephesians 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.1 Samuel 25:36-37And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart [was] merry within him, for he [was] very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
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