Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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;

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:

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 may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, 7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, 8 and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,

Cross References

Acts 2:15

for these are not drunken, as ye take it up, for it is the third hour of the day.

2 Peter 2:13

about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,

Romans 13:13

as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;

1 Samuel 25:36-37

And Abigail cometh in unto Nabal, and lo, he hath a banquet in his house, like a banquet of the king, and the heart of Nabal is glad within him, and he is drunk unto excess, and she hath not declared to him anything, less or more, till the light of the morning.

Job 4:13

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

Job 33:15

In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.

Proverbs 23:29-35

Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? who hath plaint? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?

Isaiah 21:4-5

Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,

Daniel 5:4-5

they have drunk wine, and have praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.

Luke 21:34-35

'And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

1 Corinthians 15:34

awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say it.

Ephesians 5:14

wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

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