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;


In Context

5 for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

6 So then do not let us sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober;

7 for they that sleep sleep by night, and they that drink drink by night;

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

9 because God has not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or sleep, we may 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 American 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 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 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,