Devine Scripture

1 Thessalonians 5:7

1 Thessalonians chapter 5 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

v.7This passage

v.8But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 Corinthians 15:34

    Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

  • Luke 21:34

    But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

  • Acts 2:15

    For these are not drunken, as ye suppose; seeing it is but the third hour of the day;

  • Romans 13:13

    Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

  • Job 4:13

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

  • Ephesians 5:14

    Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.