1 Thessalonians 5:8 · KJV
“But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.”
— 1 Thessalonians 5:8
For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5 — Context
Therefore let us not sleep, as {do} others; but let us watch and be sober.
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Cross References
Romans 13:12-13
The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; {to the end: Gr. perfectly}
Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Isaiah 59:17
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance {for} clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.
Hebrews 10:35-36
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
Hebrews 6:19
Which {hope} we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these {is} charity.
1 Thessalonians 5:5
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
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