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The Day of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 5:7

In 9 translations

BSB
For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
KJV
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
WEB
For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
ASV
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
LSV
for those sleeping, sleep by night, and those making themselves drunk, are drunken by night,
YLT
for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,
DBY
for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;
DRC
For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.
GNV
For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
οἱ γὰρ καθεύδοντες νυκτὸς καθεύδουσιν, καὶ οἱ μεθυσκόμενοι νυκτὸς μεθύουσιν·
RP2018
Οἱ γὰρ καθεύδοντες νυκτὸς καθεύδουσιν· καὶ οἱ μεθυσκόμενοι, νυκτὸς μεθύουσιν.
TR-Boyd
Οἱ γὰρ καθεύδοντες νυκτὸς καθεύδουσι· καὶ οἱ μεθυσκόμενοι, νυκτὸς μεθύουσιν.
SCR1894
οι γαρ καθευδοντες νυκτος καθευδουσιν και οι μεθυσκομενοι νυκτος μεθυουσιν

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
  • 2 Peter 2:13The harm they will suffer is the wages of their wickedness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deception as they feast with you.
  • 1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
  • Acts 2:15These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It is only the third hour of the day!
  • Daniel 5:4–5As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone. At that moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the…
  • Luke 21:34–35But watch yourselves, or your hearts will be weighed down by dissipation, drunkenness, and the worries of life—and that day will spring upon you suddenly like a snare. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of…
  • Proverbs 23:29–35Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes? Those who linger over wine, who go to taste mixed drinks. Do not gaze at wine while it is red, when…
  • Ephesians 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
  • Isaiah 21:4–5My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror. They prepare a table, they lay out a carpet, they eat, they drink! Rise up, O princes, oil the shields!
  • Job 4:13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,
  • Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
  • 1 Samuel 25:36–37When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light. In the morning when Nabal was sober, his wife told…

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