1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation:

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.

9for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Cross References

Romans 8:24For we are saved by this hope; but hope that is seen is not hope; for, what any one sees, why does he also hope for it?

1 Corinthians 13:13And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Galatians 5:5For we, through the Spirit which we obtain by faith, wait for the hope of righteousness.

Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11

Watchfulness and Sobriety. ( a. d. 51.) 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. On… Read the whole commentary →

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