1 Thessalonians 5:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

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  • 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
  • Eph 6:11 : 11 Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.
  • 1 Thess 5:5 : 5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.
  • Eph 6:13-18 : 13 For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place. 14 Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet; 16 And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One. 17 And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
  • Rom 13:12-13 : 12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light, 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
  • Isa 59:17 : 17 Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.
  • Heb 6:19 : 19 And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;
  • Heb 10:35-36 : 35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded. 36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you.
  • 1 Pet 1:3-5 : 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you, 5 Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.
  • 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.
  • Lam 3:26 : 26 It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
  • Rom 5:2-5 : 2 Through whom, in the same way, we have been able by faith to come to this grace in which we now are; and let us have joy in hope of the glory of God. 3 And not only so, but let us have joy in our troubles: in the knowledge that trouble gives us the power of waiting; 4 And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope: 5 And hope does not put to shame; because our hearts are full of the love of God through the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
  • Rom 8:24-25 : 24 For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees? 25 But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.
  • Job 19:23-27 : 23 If only my words might be recorded! if they might be put in writing in a book! 24 And with an iron pen and lead be cut into the rock for ever! 25 But I am certain that he who will take up my cause is living, and that in time to come he will take his place on the dust; 26 And ... without my flesh I will see God; 27 Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.
  • Ps 42:5 : 5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Ps 42:11 : 11 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God; for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • Ps 43:5 : 5 Why are you crushed down, O my soul? and why are you troubled in me? put your hope in God, for I will again give him praise who is my help and my God.
  • 1 Cor 13:13 : 13 But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
  • 2 Cor 6:7 : 7 In the true word, in the power of God; with the arms of righteousness on the right hand and on the left,
  • Gal 5:5 : 5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.
  • Eph 5:8-9 : 8 For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light 9 (Because the fruit of the light is in all righteousness and in everything which is good and true),
  • Eph 6:23 : 23 Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Thess 2:16 : 16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
  • 1 John 3:1-3 : 1 See what great love the Father has given us in naming us the children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not see who we are, because it did not see who he was. 2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is. 3 And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.

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    9 For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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  • Rom 13:11-14
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    11 See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.

    12 The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,

    13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

    14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not give thought to the flesh to do its desires.

  • 1 Thess 5:4-7
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    4 But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

    5 For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

    6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

    7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

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    13 So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

  • Eph 6:13-17
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    13 For this reason take up all the arms of God, so that you may be able to be strong in the evil day, and, having done all, to keep your place.

    14 Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

    15 Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;

    16 And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.

    17 And take salvation for your head-dress and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

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    24 For our salvation is by hope: but hope which is seen is not hope: for who is hoping for what he sees?

    25 But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.

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    13 But it is our desire, brothers, that you may be certain about those who are sleeping; so that you may have no need for sorrow, as others have who are without hope.

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    3 So that our spirits may not be unclothed.

    4 For truly, we who are in this tent do give out cries of weariness, for the weight of care which is on us; not because we are desiring to be free from the body, but so that we may have our new body, and death may be overcome by life.

    5 Now he who has made us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a witness of what is to come.

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    7 But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;

  • 1 Pet 5:8-9
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    8 Be serious and keep watch; the Evil One, who is against you, goes about like a lion with open mouth in search of food;

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    11 Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

  • Gal 5:5
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    5 For we through the Spirit by faith are waiting for the hope of righteousness.

  • 1 Pet 1:4-5
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    4 And a heritage fair, holy and for ever new, waiting in heaven for you,

    5 Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.

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    7 (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

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    15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are still living at the coming of the Lord, will not go before those who are sleeping.

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    21 Who through him have faith in God who took him up again from the dead into glory; so that your faith and hope might be in God.

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    2 For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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    13 Looking for the glad hope, the revelation of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ;

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    11 And it is our desire that you may all keep the same high purpose in certain hope to the end:

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    10 And this is the purpose of all our work and our fighting, because our hope is in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, and specially of those who have faith.

  • Col 1:5
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    5 Through the hope which is in store for you in heaven; knowledge of which was given to you before in the true word of the good news,

  • Rom 5:4-5
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    4 And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:

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    34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.

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    17 For this reason, then, do not be foolish, but be conscious of the Lord's pleasure.

    18 And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

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    9 For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

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    13 Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.

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    17 Yes, he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and salvation as a head-dress; and he put on punishment as clothing, and wrath as a robe.

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    19 And this hope is like a strong band for our souls, fixed and certain, and going in to that which is inside the veil;