7For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.


In Context

4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.

5 You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

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

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

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

9 For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

1 Thessalonians 5:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunken, are drunken in the night.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:7for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.