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.


In Context

5 You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self- controlled.

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.

8 But 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.

9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.

1st 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 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 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,