1 Thessalonians 5:7

Sleeping and drunkenness belong to the night. These images describe the spiritually unprepared.

Cross-references · 12

• Rom 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 Pet 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 Cor 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!
• Dan 5:4–5As they drank the wine, they praised their gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
• 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.
• Eph 5:14So it is said: “Wake up, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Prov 23:29–35Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has needless wounds? Who has bloodshot eyes?
• Isa 21:4–5My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
• 1 Sam 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.
• Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
• Job 4:13In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

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