1 Thessalonians 5:7

7 Those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk, get 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 people who belong to the light and to the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.

6 So we should not be like other people who are sleeping, but we should be alert and have self-control.

7 Those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

8 But we belong to the day, so we should control ourselves. We should wear faith and love to protect us, and the hope of salvation should be our helmet.

9 God did not choose us to suffer his anger but to have salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.