1 Thessalonians 5:8

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.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

In Context

7For they who sleep, sleep in the night, and they who are drunken, are drunken in the night;

9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Cross References

Romans 8:24For by hope we have been saved: now hope seen is not hope; for that which any man seeth how doth he yet hope for?

1 Corinthians 13:13But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greater of these is love.

Galatians 5:5For we in spirit by faith expect 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 →

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