Parallel Verses
Amplified
For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.
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.
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:
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 So then let us not sleep [in spiritual indifference] as the rest [of the world does], but let us keep wide awake [alert and cautious] and let us be sober [self-controlled, calm, and wise]. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. 8 But since we [believers] belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope and confident assurance of salvation.
Cross References
Acts 2:15
These people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is [only] the third hour of the day (9:00 a.m.);
2 Peter 2:13
suffering wrong [destined for punishment] as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a delight to revel in the daytime [living luxuriously]. They are stains and blemishes [on mankind], reveling in their
Romans 13:13
Let us conduct ourselves properly and honorably as in the [light of] day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and irresponsibility, not in quarreling and jealousy.
1 Samuel 25:36-37
Then Abigail came to Nabal, and he was holding a feast in his house [for the shearers], like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s
Job 4:13
“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,
When deep sleep falls on men,
Job 33:15
“In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God’s voice],
When deep sleep falls on men
While slumbering upon the bed,
Proverbs 23:29-35
Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has strife? Who has complaining?
Who has wounds without cause?
Whose eyes are red and dim?
Isaiah 21:4-5
My mind reels, horror overwhelms me;
The twilight I longed for has been
Daniel 5:4-5
They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
Luke 21:34-35
1 Corinthians 15:34
Be sober-minded [be sensible, wake up from your spiritual stupor] as you ought, and stop sinning; for some [of you] have no knowledge of God [you are disgracefully ignorant of Him, and ignore His truths]. I say this to your shame.
Ephesians 5:14
For this reason He says,
And arise from the dead,
And Christ will shine [as dawn] upon you and give you light.”