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1 Thessalonians 5:9 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thessalonians 5:9
Verse in Context
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7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
9 For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11 Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
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1 Thessalonians 5:1
"But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you."
1 Thessalonians 5:2
"For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night."
1 Thessalonians 5:3
"For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape."
1 Thessalonians 5:4
"But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief."
1 Thessalonians 5:5
"You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,"
1 Thessalonians 5:6
"so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober."
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