1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
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9For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Cross References
Psalms 42:5\42:4\Let my soul be overflowing with grief when these things come back to my mind, how I went in company to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with the song of those who were keeping the feast.
Psalms 43:5Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
Lamentations 3:26It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
Romans 8:24For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?
1 Corinthians 13:13But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:5For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting 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 →