Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. New Living Translation Night is the time when people sleep and drinkers get drunk. English Standard Version For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. Berean Standard Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. Berean Literal Bible For those sleeping, sleep by night; and those becoming drunk, get drunk by night. King James Bible For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. New King James Version For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. New American Standard Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk, get drunk at night. NASB 1995 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. NASB 1977 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night. Legacy Standard Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. Amplified Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. Christian Standard Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. Holman Christian Standard Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. American Standard Version For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. Aramaic Bible in Plain English For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk are drunk at night. Contemporary English Version People sleep during the night, and some even get drunk. Douay-Rheims Bible For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night. English Revised Version For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. GOD'S WORD® Translation People who sleep, sleep at night; people who get drunk, get drunk at night. Good News Translation It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk. International Standard Version For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night. Literal Standard Version for those sleeping, sleep by night, and those making themselves drunk, are drunken by night, Majority Standard Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. New American Bible Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. NET Bible For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night. New Revised Standard Version for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. New Heart English Bible For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. Webster's Bible Translation For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night. Weymouth New Testament For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who drink freely, drink at night. World English Bible For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. Young's Literal Translation for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, Additional Translations ... Context The Day of the Lord…6So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. 7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.… Cross References John 2:10 and said, "Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!" Acts 2:15 These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day! Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit. 2 Peter 2:13 The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you. Treasury of Scripture For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. they that sleep. Job 4:13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, Job 33:15 In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; Luke 21:34,35 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares… and they. 1 Samuel 25:36,37 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light… Proverbs 23:29-35 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? … Isaiah 21:4,5 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me… Jump to Previous Drink Drunk Drunken Freely Making Night Sleep Sleeping Themselves WorseJump to Next Drink Drunk Drunken Freely Making Night Sleep Sleeping Themselves Worse1 Thessalonians 5 1. He proceeds in the description of Christ's coming to judgment;16. and gives various instructions; 23. and so concludes the epistle. (7) They that sleep. . . .--As the connection of sleep with night has already been sufficiently worked out, and is not touched upon again in 1Thessalonians 5:8, the first clause seems only to be inserted for the sake of bringing out the second, and to justify the sudden introduction of the words, "and be sober." It may thus be paraphrased: "I say, 'and be sober too,' for as they that sleep in the night, so they that be drunken are drunken in the night." It is implied that the streets even of heathen Thessalonica were seldom affronted with the common English spectacle of drunken men by daylight; while among the Jews it was proof positive of sobriety to say, "It is but the third hour of the day" (Acts 2:15). In St. Cyprian's time, Christians were known from other men because their breath smelt of wine in the early morning through attending the Blessed Sacrament (Epistle lxiii. 15): no heathens would have touched wine by that time.Verse 7. - For; the reason of this exhortation. They that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. Here not to be taken in a metaphorical sense, but a simple statement of fact - what occurs in ordinary experience. The night is the season in which sleep and drunkenness usually occur; whereas the day is the season of watchfulness, sobriety, and work. Both heathen and Jews considered it as eminently disgraceful for a man to be seen drunken in the day-time. Hence, when the Jews accused the believers on the day of Pentecost with being filled with new wine, Peter answered, "We are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day" (Acts 2:15). Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Forγὰρ (gar) Conjunction Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. those who οἱ (hoi) Article - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. sleep, καθεύδοντες (katheudontes) Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 2518: To sleep, be sleeping. From kata and heudo; to lie down to rest, i.e. to fall asleep. sleep καθεύδουσιν (katheudousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 2518: To sleep, be sleeping. From kata and heudo; to lie down to rest, i.e. to fall asleep. at night; νυκτὸς (nyktos) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3571: The night, night-time. A primary word; 'night'. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. those who οἱ (hoi) Article - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. get drunk, μεθυσκόμενοι (methyskomenoi) Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3182: To make drunk; pass: I become drunk. A prolonged form of methuo; to intoxicate. get drunk μεθύουσιν (methyousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 3184: To be intoxicated with wine, be drunk. From another form of methe; to drink to intoxication, i.e. Get drunk. at night. νυκτὸς (nyktos) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3571: The night, night-time. A primary word; 'night'. 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