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1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
Contemporary English Version
1 Thessalonians 5:7-9
Contemporary English Version
7 People sleep during the night, and some even get drunk. 8 (A) But we belong to the day. So we must stay sober and let our faith and love be like a suit of armor. Our firm hope that we will be saved is our helmet.
9 God doesn't intend to punish us, but wants us to be saved by 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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