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1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
Expanded Bible
1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
Expanded Bible
7 [L For] Those who sleep sleep at night. Those who get drunk get drunk at night. 8 But we belong to the day, so we should ·control ourselves [be sober]. We should ·wear faith and love to protect us [L put on the breastplate/body armor of faith and love], and the hope of salvation should be our helmet [Is. 59:17]. 9 God did not ·choose [appoint; destine] us ·to suffer his anger [L for wrath] but to ·have [receive; gain; possess] salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
New International Version
1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
New International Version
7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.(A) 8 But since we belong to the day,(B) let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate,(C) and the hope of salvation(D) as a helmet.(E) 9 For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath(F) but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.(G)
1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
King James Version
1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
King James Version
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 hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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