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 properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
• 2 Pet 2:13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;
• 1 Cor 15:34Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
• Acts 2:15For these aren’t drunken, as you suppose, seeing it is only 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 21:34–35“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Prov 23:29–35Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?
• Isa 21:4–5My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
• 1 Sam 25:36–37Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, until the morning light.
• Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;
• Job 4:13In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

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