Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Thessalonians 5:7

"For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night." — 1 Thessalonians 5:7 (ASV)

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

People were a little more decorous in the Apostle's day than they are now, for there are some who are drunk in the day nowadays, and though we have certainly improved in some things, we seem to have gone back in this. But, at any rate, drunkenness may seem suitable to benighted persons, but it is not suitable to those who profess to have the light of God's grace.

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

There are a few who have reached such a pitch of shameless idleness that they sleep in the day, and there are others who have come to such a state of debauchery that they are drunken in the day.

But this is not the common way of things, nor even in the judgment of the most licentious of the world is this at all a proper state of things. They that sleep sleep in the night. They that are drunken are drunken in the night.

Let us who are of the day be sober, and let us of course be awake, but let us be more than awake, since watchfulness is here joined to wakefulness, and watchfulness in a soldier requires that his armor be on. So Paul pushes the parallel a little farther.