1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
7For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
9For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Cross References
Romans 8:24For by hope we are saved; but hope which is clearly seen is no longer hope.
1 Corinthians 13:13Faith, Hope, Love endure - these three; but the greatest of these is Love.
Galatians 5:5But we are not, for we through the Spirit are eagerly waiting by faith for a hope of righteousness (a hope well founded);
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 →