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1 Thessalonians 5:7

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

KJV

οἱ γὰρ καθεύδοντες νυκτὸς καθεύδουσιν, καὶ οἱ μεθυσκόμενοι νυκτὸς μεθύουσιν·

Greek NT

Qui enim dormiunt, nocte dormiunt : et qui ebrii sunt, nocte ebrii sunt.

Vulgate

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

ASV

For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that are drunk, are drunk in the night.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθεύδω
katheudo
verb · 22×
μεθύσκω
methusko
verb · 4×
μεθύω
methuo
verb · 6×
νύξ
nux
noun · 61×
o
article · 19778×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n
  • 1Cor 15:34 — Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
  • 1Sam 25:36 — And 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
  • 2Pet 2:13 — And 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 wi
  • 2Pet 2:13 — And 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 wi
  • Acts 2:15 — For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day.
  • Dan 5:4 — They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
  • Eph 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
  • Eph 5:14 — Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
  • Eph 5:18 — And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
  • Gal 5:21 — Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Isa 21:4 — My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
  • Luke 21:34 — And 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.
  • Prov 23:29 — Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
  • Rom 13:13 — Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.