1 Thessalonians 5:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

People who sleep sleep at night, and people who get drunk get drunk at night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are inebriated, are inebriated in the night.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 Cross References

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber on their beds,

Job 4:13

Amid thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals,

John 2:10

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first and then the inferior wine after the guests have become drunk. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

Acts 2:15

Indeed, these are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.

Romans 13:13

let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14

for everything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, “Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

Ephesians 5:18

Do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

2 Peter 2:13

suffering the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their pleasures while they feast with you.