1 Thessalonians 5:8

As people of the day, believers should be sober and armed with faith, love, and the hope of salvation. The familiar graces serve as spiritual armor.

Cross-references · 25

• Rom 13:12–13The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
• Eph 6:11Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
• Isa 59:17He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
• Heb 10:35–36So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
• Heb 6:19We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure. It enters the inner sanctuary behind the curtain,
• 1 Cor 13:13And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
• Rom 5:2–5through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
• 1 Th 5:5For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
• Job 19:23–27I wish that my words were recorded and inscribed in a book,
• Eph 5:8–9For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Eph 6:13–18Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.
• 2 Cor 6:7in truthful speech and in the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• 1 Pet 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Eph 6:23Peace to the brothers and love with faith from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Gal 5:5But by faith we eagerly await through the Spirit the hope of righteousness.
• Lam 3:26It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.
• Rom 8:24–25For in this hope we were saved; but hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what he can already see?
• Ps 43:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
• Ps 42:5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him for the salvation of His presence.
• Ps 42:11Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
• 1 Jn 3:1–3Behold what manner of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.
• 2 Th 2:16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,

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