1 Thessalonians 5:9 KJV
For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:7–11 KJV Chapter Context
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For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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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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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.