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 gone, and the day is near. Let’s therefore throw off the deeds of darkness, and let’s put on the armor of light.
• Eph 6:11Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
• Isa 59:17He put on righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put on garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a mantle.
• Heb 10:35–36Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
• Heb 6:19This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and entering into that which is within the veil;
• 1 Cor 13:13But now faith, hope, and love remain — these three. The greatest of these is love.
• Rom 5:2–5through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
• 1 Th 5:5You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to 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 Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
• Job 19:23–27“Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book!
• Eph 5:8–9For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
• Eph 6:13–18Therefore put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand.
• 2 Cor 6:7in the word of truth, in the power of God; by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence 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, who according to his great mercy caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• Eph 6:23Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Gal 5:5For we, through the Spirit, by faith wait for the hope of righteousness.
• Lam 3:26It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.
• Rom 8:24–25For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?
• Ps 43:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
• Ps 42:5Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him for the saving help of his presence.
• Ps 42:11Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him, the saving help of my countenance, and my God.
• 1 Jn 3:1–3See how great a love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know him.
• 2 Th 2:16Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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