Devine Scripture

1 Thessalonians 5:8

1 Thessalonians chapter 5 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

v.8This passage

v.9For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 1 John 1:7

    but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

  • 2 Thessalonians 2:16

    Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

  • Hebrews 6:19

    which we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and stedfast and entering into that which is within the veil;

  • Isaiah 59:17

    And he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.

  • Galatians 5:5

    For we through the Spirit by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.

  • Lamentations 3:26

    It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah.