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1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
1599 Geneva Bible
1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
1599 Geneva Bible
7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.
8 [a]But let us which are of the day, be sober, (A)putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the hope of salvation for an helmet.
9 [b]For God hath not appointed us unto wrath, but to obtain salvation by the means of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- 1 Thessalonians 5:8 We must fight with faith and hope, much less ought we lie carelessly snorting.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:9 He pricketh us forward by seeing most certain hope of victory before us.
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)
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