Ephesians 6:14
Good News Translation
So stand ready, with truth as a belt tight around your waist, with righteousness as your breastplate,

New Revised Standard Version
Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness.

Contemporary English Version
Be ready! Let the truth be like a belt around your waist, and let God's justice protect you like armor.

New American Bible
So stand fast with your loins girded in truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of justice:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of justice:

having.

Ephesians 5:9 For the fruit of the light is in all goodness and justice and truth:

Isaiah 11:5 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.

Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.

2 Corinthians 6:7 In the word of truth, in the power of God: by the armour of justice on the right hand and on the left:

1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

the breastplate.

Isaiah 59:17 He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.

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.

Revelation 9:9,17 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle. . . .

Context
The Armor of God
13Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day and to stand in all things perfect. 14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth and having on the breastplate of justice: 15And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.…
Cross References
Job 29:14
I was clad with justice: and I clothed myself with my judgment, as with a robe and a diadem.

Isaiah 11:5
And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins.

Isaiah 59:17
He put on justice as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon his head: he put on the garments of vengeance, and was clad with zeal as with a cloak.

Luke 12:35
Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.

Romans 13:12
The night is passed And the day is at hand. Let us, therefore cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light.

Ephesians 6:13
Therefore, take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day and to stand in all things perfect.

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 Peter 1:13
Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 6:13
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