1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
Cross References
Psalms 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And [why] art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him [For] the help of his countenance.
Psalms 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? And why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise him, [Who is] the help of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 44 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
Lamentations 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.
Romans 8:24For in hope were we saved: but hope that is seen is not hope: for who hopeth for that which he seeth?
1 Corinthians 13:13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:5For we through the Spirit 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 →