1 Thessalonians 5:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night or to darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

Common English Bible

⁵ All of you are children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to night or darkness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ For all of you are sons of light and sons of daytime; we are not of nighttime, nor of darkness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ For all you are the children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 Cross References

Leviticus 11:16

the ostrich, the nighthawk, the sea gull, the hawk of any kind;

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.

John 12:36

While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.” After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Ephesians 5:8

for once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Walk as children of light,

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

1 John 2:8

Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.