1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
7For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
9For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Psalms 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
Psalms 43:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
Lamentations 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
Romans 8:24For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Why would one hope for what he can already see?
1 Corinthians 13:13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit 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 →