Acts 2:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • 1 Sam 1:15 : 15 And Hannah, answering him, said, No, my lord, I am a woman whose spirit is broken with sorrow: I have not taken wine or strong drink, but I have been opening my heart before the Lord.
  • Matt 20:3 : 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing;
  • 1 Thess 5:5-8 : 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. 7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night; 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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