1 Thessalonians 5:8
But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Cross References
Psalms 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
Psalms 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Saviour, my helper, and my God.
Lamentations 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Romans 8:24For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
1 Corinthians 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. 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 →