Verse 7

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to indulge in carousing during the day. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.
  • Acts 2:15 : 15 'These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!'
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the daytime, not in revelries and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 Those who linger over wine, who go to sample mixed drinks. 31 Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup and goes down smoothly. 32 In the end, it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your heart will utter perverse things. 34 You will be like one lying down in the middle of the sea, or like one lying on the top of a mast. 35 'They struck me,' you will say, 'but I was not hurt; they beat me, but I did not feel it. When will I wake up so I can look for another drink?'
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart staggers; terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling for me. 5 Prepare the table, set a watchman in the watchtower, eat and drink. Rise up, you princes, and anoint the shield!
  • Dan 5:4-5 : 4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. 5 At that very moment, the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with indulgence, drunkenness, and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will come upon all who live on the face of the earth as a snare.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • 1 Sam 25:36-37 : 36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until daybreak. 37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him, and he became like a stone.
  • Job 4:13 : 13 In disquieting dreams from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,
  • Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,