1 Thessalonians 5:7
Good News Translation
It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk.

New Revised Standard Version
for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.

Contemporary English Version
People sleep during the night, and some even get drunk.

New American Bible
Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

they that sleep.

Job 4:13 In the horror of a vision by night, when deep sleep is wont to hold men,

Job 33:15 By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:

Luke 21:34,35 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly. . . .

Romans 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day: not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and impurities, not in contention and envy.

1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake, ye just, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak it to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14 Wherefore he saith: Rise, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee.

and they.

1 Samuel 25:36,37 And Abigail came to Nabal: and behold he had a feast in his house, like the feast of a king: and Nabal's heart was merry, for he was very drunk: and she told him nothing less or more until morning. . . .

Proverbs 23:29-35 Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? . . .

Isaiah 21:4,5 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me. . . .

Daniel 5:4,5 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone. . . .

Acts 2:15 For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day:

2 Peter 2:13 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

Context
The Day of the Lord
6Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober. 7For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night. 8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.…
Cross References
John 2:10
And saith to him: Every man at first setteth forth good wine, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse. But thou hast kept the good wine until now.

Acts 2:15
For these are not drunk, as you suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day:

Ephesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is luxury: but be ye filled with the Holy Spirit,

2 Peter 2:13
Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

1 Thessalonians 5:6
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