1 Thessalonians 5:8
but *we* being of [the] day, let us be sober, putting on [the] breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet [the] hope of salvation;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;
9because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Cross References
Psalms 42:5Why art thou cast down, my soul, and art disquieted in me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [for] the health of his countenance.
Psalms 43:5Why art thou cast down, my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God; for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God.
Lamentations 3:26It is good that one should both wait, and that in silence, for the salvation of Jehovah.
Romans 8:24For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?
1 Corinthians 13:13And now abide faith, hope, love; these three things; and the greater of these [is] love.
Galatians 5:5For we, by [the] Spirit, on the principle of faith, await 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 →