1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who belong to the day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
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7It is at night that people sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk.
Cross References
Psalms 42:5Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
Psalms 43:5Why am I downcast? Why this moaning within me? Hope in God; for yet will I praise him, my help, my God.
Romans 8:24By our hope we were saved. But the thing hoped for is no longer an object of hope when it is before our eyes; for who hopes for what is before his eyes?
1 Corinthians 13:13Meanwhile faith, hope, and love endure – these three, but the greatest of these is love.
Galatians 5:5For we, by the help of the Spirit, are eagerly waiting for the fulfillment of our hope – that we may be pronounced righteous as the result of faith.
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 →