1 Thessalonians 5:8

American Standard Version

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

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1 Thessalonians 5:8 in other translations

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.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 · World English Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 in context

  1. 6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
  2. 7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
  3. 8But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
  4. 9For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
  5. 10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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