1 Thessalonians 5:8
King James Version
Translation: KJV
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6Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.Select 1 Thessalonians 5:6
7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.Select 1 Thessalonians 5:7
8But 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.Select 1 Thessalonians 5:8
9For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,Select 1 Thessalonians 5:9
10Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.Select 1 Thessalonians 5:10
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WEB
5:8 But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
ASV
5:8 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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