1 Thessalonians 5:8 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11

1 Thessalonians 5:7-11. 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 the cover of darkness; and if we were still in the night of heathenish ignorance, and in a state of spiritual blindness and unbelief, our insensibility of divine things, our unwatchfulness, sloth, and indolence would have some excuse: but being of the day And brought out... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Those who are still alive (5:1-11)Paul had already told the Thessalonians that no one knows when Christ will return. He will come as unexpectedly as a thief. His intervention in the affairs of the world will be as sudden as birth pains. His return will smash the non-Christian’s sense of security with a destruction that none will escape (5:1-3). The life of the non-Christian is likened to a dark night of moral laziness and ill-discipline. The life of the Christian is likened to a bright day of... read more

E.W. Bullinger

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

breastplate . Greek. thorax. See Ephesians 6:14 . faith . App-150 . love . App-135 . helmet . Greek. perikephalaia. See Ephesians 6:17 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.For extended comment on Paul's famed triad of "faith, hope and love," see under 1 Thessalonians 1:3, above. Amazingly, Paul here switched metaphors in the middle of a train of thought, a style characteristic of the blessed apostle and absolutely impossible of forgery or imitation. Only Paul could have done a thing like this. As Paul was familiar with military... read more

Thomas Coke

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

1 Thessalonians 5:8. 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 the breast and the head of their soldiers by armour, to which the Apostle here compares the Christian graces of faith and love. The breastplate of faith and love, being made of more precious materials than any metal, and being of a truly heavenly fabric, will render the heart,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

8. Faith, hope, and love, are the three pre-eminent graces (1 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Corinthians 13:13). We must not only be awake and sober, but also armed; not only watchful, but also guarded. The armor here is only defensive; in 1 Corinthians 13:13- :, also offensive. Here, therefore, the reference is to the Christian means of being guarded against being surprised by the day of the Lord as a thief in the night. The helmet and breastplate defend the two vital parts, the head and the heart... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

C. Personal watchfulness 5:1-11In view of the imminency of Christ’s return Paul exhorted the Thessalonians to be ready to meet the Lord at any time."The former [paragraph, i.e., 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18] offered instruction concerning the dead in Christ; this [paragraph] gives a word of needed exhortation to the living." [Note: Hiebert, p. 207.] Other contrasts between these passages are the Rapture and the day of the Lord, and resurrection and judgment.This pericope deals with the time of... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-24

III. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS 4:1-5:24The second major part of this epistle contains instructions and exhortations about Christian living in general, the Rapture, personal watchfulness, church life, and individual behavior. All of this is vital for believers who are undergoing opposition for their faith. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Thessalonians 5:7-8

Behavior consistent with their position in Christ required watchful preparation in view of the future. As soldiers engaged in spiritual warfare, they needed to protect their vital parts with trust in God and love for others (cf. 1 Thessalonians 1:3, 1 Thessalonians 3:5; Isaiah 59:17; Romans 13:12; 2 Corinthians 6:7; 2 Corinthians 10:4; Ephesians 6:14-17). They also needed to protect their thinking from attack by keeping their sure hope of deliverance at Christ’s appearing in mind (i.e., the... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Thessalonians 5:8

5:8 hope (a-23) Compare 1 Corinthians 13:13 . 'faith, hope, love, these three things.' read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - 1 Thessalonians 5:7-11

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

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

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - 1 Thessalonians 5:8

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

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

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Thessalonians 5:1-24

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - 1 Thessalonians 5:7-8

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - 1 Thessalonians 5:8

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