1 Thessalonians 5:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But let us, who are of the day, be sober - Temperate, as people usually are in the daytime. Putting on the breast-plate of faith and love - This is a favorite comparison of the apostle Paul;...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(3) 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. (3) We must fight with faith and hope, and therefore we should c...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Paul's Warning to the Christians to be Prepared for the Parousia. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 . as a thief in the night: cf. the words of Jesus ( Matthew 24:43 ). Throughout this paragraph the sudden...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

breastplate . Greek. thorax. See Ephesians 6:14 . faith . App-150. love . App-135. helmet . Greek. perikephalaia. See Ephesians 6:17 .
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

8 Having put on the breastplate. He adds this, that he may the more effectually shake us out of our stupidity, for he calls us as it were to arms, that he may shew that it is not a time to sl...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 2203 WATCHFULNESS ENJOINED 1 Thessalonians 5:1-8 . Of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lor...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Putting on the breastplate - We are not only called to Work, but we a...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Putting on the breastplate of faith and love, &c.— The breast and head being particularly exposed in battle, and wounds in these parts being extremely dangerous, the ancients carefully defended...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Faith, hope, and love, the three pre-eminent graces ( 1 Thessa...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Need of Watchfulness. Final Injunctions 1. Times and seasons] St. Paul always lays stress on the uncertainty as to the time of the Advent ( 2 Thessalonians 2:2 cp. 2 Peter 3:3-4 ).
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Putting on. — A curiously abrupt transition, suggested by the sober vigilance just advocated. The Christian must be careful to watch, not only because the Lord is coming back at some unexpected hou...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Chapter 12 THE DAY OF THE LORD 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 (R.V.) THE last verses of the fourth chapter perfect that which is lacking, on one side, in the faith of the Thessalonians. The Apostle ad...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Ready for “the Day of the Lord” 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 To the Apostle “the day of the Lord” was near. He expected it in his lifetime, and if we remember that the Lord's words with reference to...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Under the figure of a camp in which fully armed soldiers are waiting for the break of day, while those not expecting this are sleeping and drunken, the apostle shows that those waiting for the Son ar...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. (...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But let us, who are of the day, be sober ,.... As in body, so in mind; let us cast off the works of darkness, and have no fellowship with them; since the day of grace has passed upon us, the darknes...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 8. Be sober ] Drunkenness misbeseemeth any man, but especial...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For they that sleep, sleep in the night , &c. Night is the time for sleep, and they that are guilty of drunkenness, gluttony, and other vices of intemperance, generally choose to hide them under...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In contrast to the new revelation Paul gives at the end of ch. 4, he now tells them in ch. 5 that "of the times and seasons" there was no need to write, for this was a matter of which they were well...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Watchfulness and Sobriety. A. D. 51. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let u...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The apostle here commands two spiritual duties, and the former is sobriety; which he mentioned before, 1 Thessalonians 5:6 , as a preparation for Christ's coming; but here, as that which was suita...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘So then let us not sleep as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober, for those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night, but let us, since we are of the...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES 1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Times and seasons. —The one is the even, continuous flow of the river, the other is the cataract. Seasons we may represent as epochs. Our Lor...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Scofield Reference Notes

salvation ( See Scofield) - ( Romans 1:16 ).
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:1-8 I. The Apostle having disclosed much in the foregoing verses about the Lord's second coming, and the respective shares in its glory which are to fall to those of His people w...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:1-2 . But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night....
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:1 . Of the times and seaso n s, ye have no need that I write to you. Paul as a prophet might have said much concerning the dispensations of providence which should attend the ch...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you--Perhaps because the apostle had told them, or because the sudden coming of Christ was a universal belief. So in moder...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION CONTENTS .—With regard to the time of that glorious advent when believers, whether dead or living, will be gathered together to Christ, the Thessalonians had already been fully instr...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The alertness and vigilance of the Christians:
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 13:13 ; 1 John 1:7 ; 1 John 3:1-3 ; 1 Peter 1:13 ; 1 Peter 1:3-5 ; 1 Peter 2:9 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:5 ; 2 Corinthians 6:7 ; 2 Thessalonians 2:16 ; Ephesians 5:8 ; Ephesians 5:...
1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Lord's Coming 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The question up for discussion is one of utmost importance. If it is true that the Lord's Coming is near, and that at any moment we...

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Scofield Reference Notes

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Sermon Bible Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:8 - Wells of Living Water Commentary