1 Thessalonians 5:7

World English Bible (2000)

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 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
  • Acts 2:15 : 15 For these aren't drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only the third hour of the day.
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and don't sin, 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 strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes? 30 Those who stay long at the wine; those who go to seek out mixed wine. 31 Don't look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it 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 mind will imagine confusing things. 34 Yes, you will be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies on top of the rigging: 35 "They hit me, and I was not hurt! They beat me, and I don't feel it! When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
  • Isa 21:4-5 : 4 My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me. 5 They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!
  • Dan 5:4-5 : 4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. 5 In the same hour came forth the fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
  • Luke 21:34-35 : 34 "So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly. 35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
  • Eph 5:14 : 14 Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
  • 1 Sam 25:36-37 : 36 Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light. 37 It happened in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, that his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as 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 on men, in slumbering on the bed;

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    11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

    12The night is far gone, and the day is near. Let's therefore throw off the works of darkness, and let's put on the armor of light.

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    30For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.

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

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    5Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

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    5lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the justice due to anyone who is afflicted.

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    22Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, and champions at mixing strong drink;

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    11But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.