◄ 1 Thessalonians 5:5 ►
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Good News Translation
All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

New Revised Standard Version
for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.

Contemporary English Version
You belong to the light and live in the day. We don't live in the night or belong to the dark.

New American Bible
For all of you are children of the light and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness.

Luke 16:8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

John 12:36 Whilst you have the light, believe in the light, that you may be the children of light. These things Jesus spoke: and he went away and hid himself from them.

Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Ephesians 5:8 For you were heretofore darkness, but now light in the Lord. Walk then as children of the light.

Context
The Day of the Lord
…4But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief. 5For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness. 6Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.…
Cross References
Luke 16:8
And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

1 Thessalonians 5:8
But let us, who are of the day, be sober, having on the breast plate of faith and charity and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

1 John 2:8
Again a new commandment I write unto you: which thing is true both in him and in you, because the darkness is passed and the true light now shineth.

1 Thessalonians 5:4
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