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,


In Context

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

6 so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

7 for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

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

9 because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

10 who did die for us, that whether we wake — whether we sleep — together with him we may live;

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 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.