1 Thessalonians 5:7

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

Cross-references · 12

• Rom 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• 2 Pet 2:13And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
• 1 Cor 15:34Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
• Acts 2:15For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
• Dan 5:4–5They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
• Luke 21:34–35And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
• Eph 5:14Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Prov 23:29–35Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
• Isa 21:4–5My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
• 1 Sam 25:36–37And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
• Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
• Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

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