1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Easy To Read Version People who sleep, sleep at night. People who get drunk, get drunk at night. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
He said to the bridegroom, “People always serve the best wine first. Later, after the guests have become drunk, people serve the cheaper wine. But you have saved the best wine until now.”
These men are not drunk like you think; it is only nine o’clock in the morning!
We should live in a right way, like people that belong to the day. We should not have wild and wasteful parties. We should not be drunk. We should not do sexual sins or sin in any way with our bodies. We should not cause arguments and trouble or be jealous.
Come back to your right way of thinking and stop sinning. Some of you don’t know God. I say this to shame you.
And everything that is made easy to see can become light. This is why we say:
Don’t be drunk with wine. That will ruin (destroy) you spiritually. But be filled with the Spirit. {\cf2\super [39]}
These false teachers have made many people suffer. So they themselves will suffer. That is their pay for what they have done. These false teachers think it is fun to do evil things openly \{where all people can see\}. They enjoy the evil things that please them. So they are like dirty spots and stains among you—\{they bring shame to you\} in the meals that you eat together.