Parallel Verses
Twentieth Century New Testament
It is at night that men sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk.
New American Standard Bible
For those who sleep do their sleeping at night, and those who get drunk get
King James Version
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Holman Bible
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at 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;
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,
Themes
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » Who
Darkness » What happens in the night
Topics
Interlinear
Katheudo
μεθύω
methuo
Usage: 6
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 5:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sudden Arrival Of The Day Of The Lord
6 Therefore let us not sleep as others do. No, let us be watchful and self-controlled. 7 It is at night that men sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk. 8 But let us, who belong to the Day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of Salvation as a helmet.
Cross References
Acts 2:15
These men are not drunk, as you suppose; for it is only now nine in the morning! No!
2 Peter 2:13
suffering themselves, as the penalty for the suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace, indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at your feasts.
Romans 13:13
Being in the light of Day, let us live becomingly, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lust and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.
Luke 21:34-35
Be on your guard lest your minds should ever be dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and lest 'That Day' should come suddenly upon you, like a snare.
1 Corinthians 15:34
Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.
Ephesians 5:14
For everything that has its true character made manifest is clear as light. And that is why it is said--'Sleeper, awake! Arise from the dead, and the Christ shall give thee light!'