1 Thessalonians 5:8 meaning and explanation
But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
1 Thessalonians 5:8, Berean Standard Bible
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Paul writes to a young congregation in Thessalonica anxious about when Christ will return. Having called believers sons of the day rather than people of night, he borrows the soldier's armor: the breastplate guards the heart, the helmet the head.
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