1 Thessalonians 5:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;
  • Acts 2:15 : 15 For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark? 30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine. 31 Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down: 32 In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things. 34 Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support. 35 They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My mind is wandering, fear has overcome me: the evening of my desire has been turned into shaking for me. 5 They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
  • Dan 5:4-5 : 4 They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone. 5 In that very hour the fingers of a man's hand were seen, writing opposite the support for the light on the white wall of the king's house, and the king saw the part of the hand which was writing.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net: 35 For so it will come on all those who are living on the face of all the earth.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-37 : 36 And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came. 37 And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.
  • Job 4:13 : 13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,
  • Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

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    4 But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

    5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

    6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

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    8 But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

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    16 For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

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    11 Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

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    5 Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

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    14 For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

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    11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

    12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

    13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

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    13 But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

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    2 For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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    17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

    18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

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    30 For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.

  • 1 Thess 5:10
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    10 Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.

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    5 Now the husband was a long time in coming, and they all went to sleep.

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    15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

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    34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

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    21 For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.

  • Eph 5:7-8
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    7 Have no part with such men;

    8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light

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    36 For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.

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    9 Be surprised and full of wonder; let your eyes be covered and be blind: be overcome, but not with wine; go with uncertain steps, but not because of strong drink.

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    5 For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

    6 Give strong drink to him who is near to destruction, and wine to him whose soul is bitter:

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    15 For these men are not overcome with wine, as it seems to you, for it is only the third hour of the day;

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    10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

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    65 Then was the Lord like one awaking from sleep, and like a strong man crying out because of wine.

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    13 In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

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    33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

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    30 Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.

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    4 And they are wondering that you no longer go with them in this violent wasting of life, and are saying evil things of you:

  • Gal 5:21
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    21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

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    22 Cursed are those who are strong to take wine, and great in making mixed drinks!

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    15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

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    39 When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.

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    21 For when you take your food, everyone takes his meal before the other; and one has not enough food, and another is the worse for drink.

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    8 Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

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    10 Or is a thief, or the worse for drink, or makes use of strong language, or takes by force what is not his, will have any part in the kingdom of God.

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    1 Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

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    18 And, in addition, the dead in Christ have gone to destruction.

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    16 In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

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    25 They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.

  • 1 Cor 5:11
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    11 But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.