1 Thessalonians 5:7

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;
  • Acts 2:15 : 15 For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes? 30 They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine. 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly: 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder. 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. 35 They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me. 5 They prepare the table, they set the watch, they eat, they drink: rise up, ye princes, anoint the shield.
  • Dan 5:4-5 : 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare: 35 for [so] shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-37 : 36 And 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. 37 And it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.
  • Job 4:13 : 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,
  • Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

Similar Verses (AI)

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    4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

    5for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

    6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

  • 8But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16For they sleep not, except they do evil; And their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

  • 11Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that tarry late into the night, till wine inflame them!

  • 5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and wail, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Eph 5:14-15
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    14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

    15Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

  • Rom 13:11-13
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    11And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.

    12The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

    13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

  • 13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

  • 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

  • Eph 5:17-18
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    17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

    18And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

  • 30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

  • 10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

  • 5Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

  • 15In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

  • 34Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.

  • 7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

  • 21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.

  • Eph 5:7-8
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    7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

    8For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

  • 36lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • 9Tarry ye and wonder; take your pleasure and be blind: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • Prov 31:5-6
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    5Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice [due] to any that is afflicted.

    6Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul:

  • 15For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is [but] the third hour of the day.

  • 10[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep:

  • 65Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.

  • 13In thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falleth on men,

  • 33[ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep;

  • 30They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.

  • 4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • 21envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

  • 22Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink;

  • 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

  • 39When they are heated, I will make their feast, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith Jehovah.

  • 21for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own supper; and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

  • 8Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

  • 10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

  • 1Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

  • 18Then they also that are fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

  • 7And even these reel with wine, and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 16In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

  • 25They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

  • 11but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.