1 Thessalonians 5:8 KJV — MannaFest

1 Thessalonians 5:8

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.

KJV

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ASV

But 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.

WEB

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.

YLT

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,

DBT

but we being of [the] day, let us be sober, putting on [the] breastplate of faith and love, and as helmet [the] hope of salvation;

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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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The Armor of GodHelmet of salvation — Paul redeploys the image.

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Cross-references

41 verses on the floor

Ephesians 6:11
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Ephesians 6:17
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:
1 Corinthians 13:13
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
2 Corinthians 10:4
(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

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This good hope, through grace, of eternal life, will be as a helmet to defend the head, and hinder our being intoxicated with the pleasures of sin, which are but for a season. If we have hope of salvation, let us take heed of doing any thing that shall shake our hopes, or render us unworthy of or unfit for the great salvation we hope for.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

"With head and heart right, the whole man is right" [EDMUNDS]. The head needs to be kept from error, the heart from sin. For "the breastplate of righteousness," Eph 6:14, we have here "the breastplate of faith and love"; for the righteousness which is imputed to man for justification, is "faith working by love" (Ro 4:3, 22-24;

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

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Where this verse connects

Same Author Parallel Ephesians 6:14
Paul's own earlier, shorter armor list ('breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation') — same two Isa 59:17 pieces; the strongest internal control on the reading.
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1TH 5:8EPH 6:11 1PE 5:8
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
1TH 5:8EPH 6:11 2CO 10:4
1TH 5:8EPH 6:11 ROM 13:12
1TH 5:8EPH 6:11 EPH 6:13
1TH 5:81PE 1:13 LUK 12:35
1TH 5:8EPH 6:11 2CO 2:11
1TH 5:81PE 1:13 1PE 4:7
1TH 5:81PE 1:13 HEB 9:28

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