1 Thessalonians 5:7

7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken, be drunken in the 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 For all ye be the sons of light, and sons of [the] day; we be not of night, neither of darknesses.

6 Therefore sleep we not as others; but wake we, and be we sober.

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

8 But we that be of the day, be sober, clothed in the habergeon of faith and of charity, and in the helmet of hope of health [clothed in the habergeon of faith and charity, and in the helmet, hope of health].

9 For God putted not us into wrath, but into the purchasing of health by our Lord Jesus Christ,