1 Thessalonians 5:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

and the ostrich, and the night hawk, and the seamew, and the hawk after its kind;

Luke 16:8

And his lord commended the unrighteous steward because he had done wisely: for the sons of this world are for their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

John 12:36

While ye have the light, believe on the light, that ye may become sons of light. These things spake Jesus, and 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 unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

Ephesians 5:8

For ye were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord: walk as children of light

1 Thessalonians 5:8

But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

1 John 2:8

Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.