1 Thessalonians 5:5 KJV — MannaFest

1 Thessalonians 5:5

Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

KJV

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ASV

for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

WEB

For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

YLT

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

DBT

for all ye are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

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1 Thessalonians — Paul's earliest letter. Thanksgiving for a young church's faith, and plain teaching on holy living and the return of Christ.

Author: Paul, with Silvanus and Timothy (1:1)
Date: c. AD 50–51, from Corinth

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Matthew 5:14
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
Romans 13:11
And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Luke 4:18
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Ephesians 5:8
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
Genesis 1:5
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

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They are not in darkness; they are the children of the light, &c. This was the happy condition of the Thessalonians as it is of all true Christians. They were not in a state of sin and ignorance as the heathen world.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Ye have no reason for fear, or for being taken by surprise, by the coming of the day of the Lord: "For ye are all sons (so the Greek) of light and sons of day"; a Hebrew idiom, implying that as sons resemble their fathers, so you are in character light (intellectually and morally illuminated in a spiritual point of view), Lu 16:8;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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