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.


In Context

5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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 an helmet, the hope of salvation.

9 For God has 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.

1 Thessalonians 5:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But 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.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8but we being of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet the hope of salvation;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:8But 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8But 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:8and we, being of the day — let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet — a hope of salvation,