⁷ For ^(A)those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk ^(B)are drunk at night.

^13 (A)and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who count it pleasure ^(B)to ^[a]carouse in the daytime. ^(C)They are spots and blemishes, ^[b]carousing in their own deceptions while ^(D)they feast with you,

^13 (A)Let us walk ^[a]properly, as in the day, ^(B)not in revelry and drunkenness, ^(C)not in lewdness and lust, ^(D)not in strife and envy.

¹⁵ For these are not drunk, as you suppose, ^(A)since it is only ^[a]the third hour of the day.

^34 (A)Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; ^(B)for some do not have the knowledge of God. ^(C)I speak this to your shame.

¹⁴ Therefore He says:

The Importance of Watching^(A)

³⁴ “But ^(B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with ^[a]carousing, drunkenness, and ^(C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. ³⁵ For ^(D)it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth.

⁴ They drank wine, ^(A)and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

^5 (B)In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.