Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get drunk at night.

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

For people who go to sleep, go to sleep at night; and people who get drunk, get drunk at night.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

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

An Understandable Version

For people sleep at night, and get drunk at night [i.e., generally speaking].

Anderson New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

Common New Testament

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

Daniel Mace New Testament

they that are sober take their rest in the night, whilst they that are sots, are drunk in the night:

Darby Translation

for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

Godbey New Testament

For those sleeping, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, get drunk in the night:

Goodspeed New Testament

For those who sleep sleep at night and those who get drunk do so at night,

John Wesley New Testament

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

Julia Smith Translation

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

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

For those sleeping sleep in the night, and those being drunken are drunken in the night.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

Moffatt New Testament

for sleepers sleep by night and drunkards are drunk by night,

Montgomery New Testament

For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

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

The Emphasized Bible

For, they that sleep, by night, do sleep, and, they that drink, by night, do drink: -

Thomas Haweis New Testament

For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night;

Twentieth Century New Testament

It is at night that men sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk.

Webster

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

Weymouth New Testament

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who drink freely, drink at night.

Williams New Testament

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

World English Bible

For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

Worrell New Testament

For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunken are drunken at night.

Worsley New Testament

for they, that sleep, sleep in the night; and drunkards are drunk in the night:

Youngs Literal Translation

for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For
γάρ 
Gar 
for, , not tr
Usage: 825

καθεύδω 
Katheudo 
μεθύω 
methuo 
Usage: 11
Usage: 6

καθεύδω 
Katheudo 
Usage: 11

καθεύδω 
Katheudo 
Usage: 11

in the night
νύξ 
Nux 
Usage: 52

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

μεθύσκω 
methusko 
be drunken, be drunk
Usage: 2

μεθύω 
methuo 
Usage: 6

Verse Info

Context Readings

The Sudden Arrival Of The Day Of The Lord

6 So then, we must not sleep, like the rest, but we must stay awake and be serious. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, we must be serious and put the armor of faith and love on our chests, and put on a helmet of the hope of salvation.

Cross References

Acts 2:15

For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it’s only nine in the morning.

2 Peter 2:13

suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.

Romans 13:13

Let us walk with decency, as in the daylight: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

1 Samuel 25:36-37

Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king. Nabal was in a good mood and very drunk, so she didn’t say anything to him until morning light.

Job 4:13

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night,
when deep sleep descends on men,

Job 33:15

In a dream, a vision in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they slumber on their beds,

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?
Who has wounds for no reason?
Who has red eyes?

Isaiah 21:4-5

My heart staggers;
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope
into sheer terror.

Daniel 5:4-5

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

Luke 21:34-35

“Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come to your senses and stop sinning, for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.

Ephesians 5:14

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

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