1 Thessalonians 5:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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  • 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 And will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, reveling in their own deceptions while they banquet with you;
  • Acts 2:15 : 15 These are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
  • Prov 23:29-35 : 29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? 30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine. 31 Do not look upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it swirls smoothly. 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things. 34 Yes, you shall be as one who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as one who lies upon the top of a mast. 35 "They have struck me," you shall say, "and I was not hurt; they have beaten me, and I did not feel it; when shall I awake, I will seek it yet again."
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart pounded, fearfulness frightened me; the night that I delighted in has been turned into terror for me. 5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, you princes, and anoint the shield.
  • Dan 5:4-5 : 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver, of brass, iron, wood, and stone. 5 In the same hour, fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be burdened with surfeiting, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day comes upon you unexpectedly. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-37 : 36 And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37 But in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became like a stone.
  • Job 4:13 : 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
  • Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

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    4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

    5 You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

    6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober.

  • 8 But let us, who are of the day, 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 do not sleep unless they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.

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

  • 11 Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; who continue until night, till wine inflames them!

  • 5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Eph 5:14-15
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    14 Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

    15 See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,

  • Rom 13:11-13
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    11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

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

    13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.

  • 13 But I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

  • 2 For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

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

    18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

  • 30 For this reason, many are weak and sick among you, and many sleep.

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

  • 5 While the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

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

  • 34 Awake to righteousness and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

  • 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.

  • 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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

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

  • 36 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • 9 Pause and wonder; cry out and cry: they are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

  • Prov 31:5-6
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    5 Lest they drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

    6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those of heavy hearts.

  • 15 These are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

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

  • 65 Then the Lord awoke as one out of sleep, like a mighty man who shouts because of wine.

  • 13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

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

  • 30 Those who linger long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

  • 4 Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

  • 22 Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mix strong drink:

  • 15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

  • 39 In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunk, that they may rejoice and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, says the LORD.

  • 21 For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

  • 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

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

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

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

  • 7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

  • 16 In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

  • 25 They grope in the dark without light, and He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

  • 11 But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.