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 far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
• Eph 6:11Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• 1 Pet 1:13Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• Isa 59:17For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
• Heb 10:35–36Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• Heb 6:19Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
• 1 Cor 13:13And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
• Rom 5:2–5By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• 1 Th 5:5Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
• 1 Jn 1:7But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• Job 19:23–27Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
• Eph 5:8–9For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
• Eph 6:13–18Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
• 2 Cor 6:7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• 1 Pet 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• 1 Pet 1:3–5Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Eph 6:23Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Gal 5:5For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.
• Lam 3:26It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
• Rom 8:24–25For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?
• Ps 43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• Ps 42:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
• Ps 42:11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
• 1 Jn 3:1–3Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

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