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

General references

Leviticus 11:16

Proverbs 24:33

Mark 13:33

Bible References

They that sleep

In the fantasies and thoughts of the visions of the night, when sleep cometh on men:

In dreams and visions of the night season - When slumbering cometh upon men, that they fall a sleep in their beds -

Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of this world: and that, that day come on you unawares.

Let us walk honestly as it were in the daylight: not in eating and drinking: neither in chambering and wantonness: neither in strife and envying:

Awake truly out of sleep, and sin not. For some have not the knowledge of God. I speak this unto your rebuke.

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."

And they

And when Abigail came to Nabal, behold, he held a feast in his house like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, and he was drunk a good. Wherefore she told him nought, neither little nor more, until the morrow day.

Where is woe? Where is sorrow? Where is strife? Where is brawling? Where are wounds without cause? Where be red eyes?

My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.

They drunk wine, and praised their Idols of gold, silver, copper, iron, wood and stone.

These are not drunken, as ye suppose - For it is yet but the third hour of the day -

and receive the reward of unrighteousness. They count it pleasure to live deliciously for a season. Spots they are, and filthiness, living at pleasure, and in deceitful ways feasting with you:

General references

the ostrich, the nightcrow, the cuckoo, the sparrowhawk, and all the kind;

Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little;

Take heed: watch, and pray, for ye know not when the time is: