1 Thessalonians 5:7

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

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  • 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,

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    4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this day should surprise you like a thief.

    5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

    6 So then, let us not sleep like the rest, but let us be alert and sober.

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

  • Prov 4:16-17
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    16 For they cannot rest until they do evil; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.

    17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • 11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning to chase after strong drink, and who continue into the evening, inflamed by wine.

  • 5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep! Wail, all you wine drinkers, because of the fresh wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Eph 5:14-15
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    14 Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

    15 Be very careful, then, how you walk—not as unwise but as wise.

  • Rom 13:11-13
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    11 And do this, knowing the time, that the hour has already come for you to wake from sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed.

    12 The night is far gone, and the day is near. So let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light.

    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.

  • 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

  • 2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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

    18 And do not get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless living, but be filled with the Spirit.

  • 30 That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

  • 10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.

  • 5 When the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

  • 15 In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,

  • 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

  • 7 The end of all things is near. Therefore, be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.

  • 21 For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

  • Eph 5:7-8
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    7 Therefore, do not be partners with them.

    8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

  • 36 Otherwise, when he comes suddenly, he may find you sleeping.

  • 9 Be astonished and amazed! Blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine—they stagger, but not from strong drink.

  • Prov 31:5-6
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    5 Lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.

    6 Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are bitter of heart.

  • 15 'These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning!'

  • 10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—

  • 65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a warrior recovering from wine.

  • 13 In disquieting dreams from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men,

  • 33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,

  • 30 Those who linger over wine, who go to sample mixed drinks.

  • 4 They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

  • 22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine and valiant at mixing strong drink,

  • 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

  • 39 While they are heated up, I will prepare their feast and make them drunk, so they will revel and then sleep a perpetual sleep, never to wake up, declares the Lord.

  • 21 For when you eat, each one takes his own supper ahead of others. One goes hungry, and another gets drunk.

  • 8 Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

  • 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

  • 1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

  • 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

  • 7 But these also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused by wine, they stagger because of strong drink—they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 16 In the darkness, they break into houses, but by day, they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.

  • 25 They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like a drunkard.

  • 11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral, greedy, an idolater, a slanderer, a drunkard, or a swindler. With such a person, do not even eat.