1 Thessalonians 5:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For they that sleep, sleep in the night - Night is the time for sleep. The day is the time for action, and in the light of day people should be employed. Night and sleep are made for each other,...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul's Warning to the Christians to be Prepared for the Parousia. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 . as a thief in the night: cf. the words of Jesus ( Matthew 24:43 ). Throughout this paragraph the sudden...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2203 WATCHFULNESS ENJOINED 1 Thessalonians 5:1-8 . Of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lor...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. For they that sleep - Sleepers and drunkards seek the night season; so the careless and the profligate perso...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. In the literal sense. Night is the time when sleepers sleep, and drinking men are drunk. To sleep by...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Need of Watchfulness. Final Injunctions 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the time of the Advent ( 2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3-4 ).
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

They that sleep.... — As the connection of sleep with night has already been sufficiently worked out, and is not touched upon again in 1 Thessalonians 5:8 , the first clause seems only to be inser...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 12 THE DAY OF THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 (R.V.) THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking, on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle ad...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ready for “the Day of the Lord” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference to...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son ar...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For they that sleep, sleep in the night ,.... The night is the usual season for sleep, and sleep is only for such who are in darkness, and are children of the night; and not proper to be indulged by...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. Ver. 7. Are drunk in the night ] But now, alas, drunkenness is become a noonday devil. Once Peter's argu...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For they that sleep, sleep in the night , &c. Night is the time for sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Watchfulness and Sobriety. A. D. 51. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let u...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The apostle enforceth the former duties of watchfulness and sobriety from the consideration of their present state. They that sleep choose the night to sleep in, and they that would be drunk choose t...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘So then let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober, for those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night, but let us, since we are of the...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Times and seasons. —The one is the even, continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we may represent as epochs. Our Lor...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:1-8 I. The Apostle having disclosed much in the foregoing verses about the Lord's second coming, and the respective shares in its glory which are to fall to those of His people w...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 . But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night....
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Of the times and seaso n s, ye have no need that I write to you. Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the ch...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief. So in moder...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instr...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:34 ; 1 Samuel 25:36 ; 1 Samuel 25:37 ; 2 Peter 2:13 ; Acts 2:15 ; Daniel 5:4 ; Daniel 5:5 ; Ephesians 5:14 ; Isaiah 21:4 ; Isaiah 21:5 ; Job 33:15 ; Job 4:13 ; Luke 21:3...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Lord's Coming 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is true that the Lord's Coming is near, and that at any moment we...
1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

They usually sleep and are drunken in the night — These things do not love the light.

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes