Verse 7

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 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;