1 Thessalonians 5:7
For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
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- 2 Pet 2:13 : 13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.
- Acts 2:15 : 15 In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.
- Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.
- 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God– I say 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 dullness of the eyes? 30 Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine. 31 Do not look on the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly. 32 Afterward it bites like a snake, and stings like a viper. 33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will speak perverse things. 34 And you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, and like one who lies down on the top of the rigging. 35 You will say,“They have struck me, but I am not harmed! They beat me, but I did not know it! When will I awake? I will look for another drink.”
- Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror. 5 Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!
- Dan 5:4-5 : 4 As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and 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 royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.
- Luke 21:34-35 : 34 Be Ready!“But be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day close down upon you suddenly like a trap. 35 For it will overtake all who live on the face of the whole earth.
- Eph 5:14 : 14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”
- 1 Sam 25:36-37 : 36 When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning’s light. 37 In the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him about these matters. He had a stroke and was paralyzed.
- Job 4:13 : 13 In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
- Job 33:15 : 15 In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
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4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.
5 For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.
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16 For they cannot sleep unless they cause harm; they are robbed of sleep until they make someone stumble.
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14 For everything made visible is light, and for this reason it says:“Awake, O sleeper! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you!”
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11 Motivation to Godly Conduct And do this because we know the time, that it is already the hour for us to awake from sleep, for our salvation is now nearer than when we became believers.
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13 The Lord Returns for Believers Now we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.
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30 That is why many of you are weak and sick, and quite a few are dead.
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5 When the bridegroom was delayed a long time, they all became drowsy and fell asleep.
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15 In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
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34 Sober up as you should, and stop sinning! For some have no knowledge of God– I say this to your shame!
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7 Service, Suffering, and Judgment For the culmination of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of prayer.
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21 because drunkards and gluttons become impoverished, and drowsiness clothes them with rags.
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7 Therefore do not be sharers with them,
8 for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live like children of light–
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36 or else he might find you asleep when he returns suddenly.
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9 God’s People Are Spiritually Insensitive You will be shocked and amazed! You are totally blind! They are drunk, but not because of wine; they stagger, but not because of beer.
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6 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those who are bitterly distressed;
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15 In spite of what you think, these men are not drunk, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.
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10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
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65 But then the Lord awoke from his sleep; he was like a warrior in a drunken rage.
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13 In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,
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33 “A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to relax,
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30 Those who linger over wine, those who go looking for mixed wine.
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4 So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.
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22 Beware, those who are champions at drinking, who display great courage when mixing strong drinks.
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15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.
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39 When their appetites are all stirred up, I will set out a banquet for them. I will make them drunk so that they will pass out, they will fall asleep forever, they will never wake up,” says the LORD.
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21 For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.
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8 Be sober and alert. Your enemy the devil, like a roaring lion, is on the prowl looking for someone to devour.
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10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, the verbally abusive, and swindlers will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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1 Wine is a mocker and strong drink is a brawler; whoever goes astray by them is not wise.
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18 Furthermore, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have also perished.
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7 Even these men stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer– priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, they totter while making legal decisions.
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16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.
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25 They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
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11 But now I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who calls himself a Christian who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or verbally abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.