For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. But because[a] we are of the day, we must be sober, by[b] putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation, because God did not appoint us for wrath, but for the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 Here “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
  2. 1 Thessalonians 5:8 Here “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“putting on”) which is understood as means