1 Thessalonians 5:5 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁵ For you are all sons of light and sons 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 according to its kind,

Luke 16:8

The master commended the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

John 12:36

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

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, 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 you are light in the Lord; 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, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.