1 Thessalonians 5:7

7 For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get ¹drunk at night.

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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.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 In-Context

5 for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;

6 so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober.

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

8 But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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

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1 Thessalonians 5:7 Meaning and Commentary

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