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1 Thessalonians 5:8

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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.

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:6

    Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

  2. 1 Thessalonians 5:7

    For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

  3. 1 Thessalonians 5:9

    For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

  4. 1 Thessalonians 5:10

    Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.