1 Thessalonians 5:8

World English Bible

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.

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1 Thessalonians 5:8 in other translations

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.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 · American Standard Version

1 Thessalonians 5:8 in context

  1. 6so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
  2. 7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
  3. 8But 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.
  4. 9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to 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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