1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us who are children of the day, be wakeful in mind, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and take the helmet of the hope of life.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

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 the acquisition of life, by our Lord Jesus the Messiah:

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Cross References

Romans 8:24Because we live in hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope: for if we saw it, how should we hope for it?

1 Corinthians 13:13For these three things are abiding, faith, and hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.

Galatians 5:5For we, through the Spirit, which is from faith, are waiting 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 →

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