1 Thessalonians 5:7

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 in Other Translations

7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

7 Night is the time when people sleep and drinkers get drunk.

7 People sleep at night and get drunk at night.

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7

For they that sleep, sleep in the night
The night is the usual season for sleep, and sleep is only for such who are in darkness, and are children of the night; and not proper to be indulged by such who are children of the day, and of the light:

and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night;
drunkenness is a work of darkness, and therefore men given to excessive drinking love darkness rather than light, and choose the night for their purpose. To be drunk at noon is so shameful and scandalous, that men who love the sin, and indulge themselves in it, take the night season for it; and equally shameful it is, that enlightened persons should be inebriated, either with the cares of this life, or with an over weening opinion of themselves.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 In-Context

5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Cross References

• 1. Acts 2:15; Romans 13:13; 2 Peter 2:13