1 Thessalonians 5:7
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
Cross-reference
Acts 2:15 assumes drunkenness is inappropriate at 9am, reinforcing Paul's claim that drunkenness belongs to the night.
2 Peter 2:13 condemns reveling in the daytime, contrasting with Paul's assumption that such behavior belongs to the night.
Ephesians 5:14 quotes 'Awake, O sleeper' — reinforces the call to spiritual alertness contrasting with physical sleep.
1 Corinthians 15:34 calls to wake from drunken stupor — uses same metaphor of spiritual sobriety Paul employs here.
Romans 13:13 contrasts daytime conduct with drunkenness — directly parallels Paul's night/day metaphor for proper behavior.
1 Samuel 25:36 shows Nabal drunk at night — a concrete narrative example of the nighttime drunkenness Paul describes.
Luke 21:34 warns against drunkenness and dissipation that weigh down hearts before the day of the Lord — same theme of avoiding nighttime behaviors.
Daniel 5:5 shows the hand writing judgment immediately after the night drinking feast, connecting night revelry to divine consequences.
Daniel 5:4 records Belshazzar's feast with wine drinking at night, a clear example of the night revelry Paul references.
Proverbs 23:29-35 details the woes of lingering over wine at night, directly echoing the drunkenness Paul associates with darkness.
In 1 Samuel 25:37, Nabal's drunkenness from the night before is exposed at morning — illustrating the night-drinking pattern Paul describes.
Ephesians 5:18 explicitly commands 'do not get drunk with wine,' providing a direct imperative parallel to the descriptive statement here.
Ephesians 5:11 calls believers to expose 'works of darkness,' directly echoing the night/darkness imagery of this verse.
Isaiah 21:5 describes feasting and drinking in Babylon's night of revelry, paralleling Paul's association of night with drunkenness.
Isaiah 5:11 condemns those who chase strong drink from morning till night, overlapping with Paul's night drinking but also including daytime.
Galatians 5:21 names drunkenness as a work of the flesh that excludes from God's kingdom, reinforcing the moral condemnation implied in this verse.
1 Peter 1:13 calls for sober-mindedness, the opposite of the drunkenness described here, setting up the contrast between nighttime and daytime behavior.