1 Thessalonians 5:7

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Summary

1 Thessalonians 5:7

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

They that sleep

And they

2 Peter 2:13

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Proverbs 24:33

Mark 13:33

Bible References

They that sleep

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, in slumberings upon the bed.

But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down in debauchery and drunkenness and mundane cares, and that day come upon you sudden.

Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.

Therefore he says, Awake, thou who sleep. And arise from the dead, and the Christ will shine upon thee.

And they

And Abigail came to Nabal, and, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king. And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

For these men are not drunken, as ye suppose, for it is the third hour of the day.

getting back a wage of unrighteousness. Men who consider soft living in the daytime to be pleasure, spots and blemishes reveling in their deceitfulness, feasting together with you,

General references

and the ostrich, and the night-hawk, and the sea-gull, and the hawk after its kind,

[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,

Watch ye! Be alert and pray, for ye know not when the time is,