1 Thessalonians 5:7

7 For they that slepe slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken are dronken in the nyght.

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 Ye are all the childre of light and the children of ye daye. We are not of ye nyght nether of darcknes.

6 Therfore let vs not slepe as do other: but let vs watch and be sober.

7 For they that slepe slepe in the nyght: and they that be dronken are dronken in the nyght.

8 But let vs which are of the daye be sober armed with the brest plate of fayth and love and with hope of salvacio as an helmet.

9 For god hath not apoynted vs vnto wrath: but to obtayne salvacion by ye meanes of oure lorde Iesu Christ