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

“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,
When deep sleep falls on men,

“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,

“Be on guard, so that your hearts will not be weighted down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of life, and that day will not come on you suddenly like a trap;

Let us

behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

For this reason it says,
“Awake, sleeper,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine on you.”

And they

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has contentions? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Who has redness of eyes?

My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been turned for me into trembling.

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

For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only the third hour of the day;

suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, as they carouse with you,

General references

and the ostrich and the owl and the sea gull and the hawk in its kind,

“A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest,”

“Take heed, keep on the alert; for you do not know when the appointed time will come.