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World English Bible

1 Thessalonians 5:5

You are all sons of light, and sons of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blindness;   Darkness;   Holiness;   Light;   Night;   Righteous;   Wicked (People);   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Light, Spiritual;   Light-Darkness;   Night;   Sons;   Watchfulness;   The Topic Concordance - Alertness;   Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;   Darkness;   Light;   Sobriety;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blindness, Spiritual;   Darkness;   Day;   Titles and Names of Saints;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Child;   Day;   Day of the lord;   Jesus christ;   Paul;   Sleep;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Christians, Names of;   Darkness;   Day;   Light;   Watchfulness;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Child;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahab;   Belshazzar;   Night;   Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Church;   Darkness;   Son of God;   Time, Meaning of;   1 Thessalonians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Light;   Thessalonians, First Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Day;   Day and Night;   Enlightenment ;   Enoch Book of;   Light and Darkness;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Walk (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Children;   Light;   Son;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Night;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day;   Eschatology of the New Testament;   Night;   Sanctification;   Thessalonians, the First Epistle of Paul to the;   Thessalonians, the Second Epistle of Paul to the;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 11;   Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for March 26;  

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
You are all people who belong to the light. You belong to the day. We don't belong to the night or to darkness.
Revised Standard Version
For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ye are all the childre of light and the children of ye daye. We are not of ye nyght nether of darcknes.
Hebrew Names Version
You are all sons of light, and sons of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,
New American Standard Bible
for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
New Century Version
You are all people who belong to the light and to the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.
Update Bible Version
for you are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
English Standard Version
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Ye are all children of the light and children of the day: we are not children of the night, nor of darkness.
Weymouth's New Testament
for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day. We belong neither to the night nor to darkness.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For alle ye ben the sones of liyt, and sones of dai; we ben not of niyt, nether of derknessis.
English Revised Version
for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
Berean Standard Bible
For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
Contemporary English Version
You belong to the light and live in the day. We don't live in the night or belong to the dark.
Amplified Bible
for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We do not belong to the night nor to darkness.
American Standard Version
for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
Bible in Basic English
For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.
Complete Jewish Bible
for you are all people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We don't belong to the night or to darkness,
Darby Translation
for all *ye* are sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.
International Standard Version
For all of you are children of light and children of day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.Ephesians 5:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
For all of you are sons of light, and sons of the day; and are not sons of the night, nor sons of darkness.
Murdock Translation
For ye are all children of the light, and children of the day; and are not children of the night, and children of darkness.
King James Version (1611)
Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkenesse.
New Living Translation
For you are all children of the light and of the day; we don't belong to darkness and night.
New Life Bible
For you are children of the light and of the day. We are not of darkness or of night.
New Revised Standard
for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse.
George Lamsa Translation
You are all the children of light, and the children of the day; and you are not the children of the night, nor the children of darkness.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, all ye, are, sons of light, and sons of day, - we are not of night, nor of darkness:
Douay-Rheims Bible
For all you are the children of light and children of the day: we are not of the night nor of darkness.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye are all the chyldren of lyght, and the chyldren of the daye: We are not of the nyght, neither of darkenesse.
Good News Translation
All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
Christian Standard Bible®
For you are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.
King James Version
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
Lexham English Bible
for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Literal Translation
You are all sons of light and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness.
Young's Literal Translation
all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye are alltogether children of lighte, and children of the daye. We are not of the night, nether of darknesse.
Mace New Testament (1729)
you inherit the advantages of meridian light: we are not involv'd in the obscurity of night.
New English Translation
For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness.
New King James Version
You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
Simplified Cowboy Version
You are children of the light, not the darkness. Only those in darkness will be destroyed.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;
Legacy Standard Bible
for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness;

Contextual Overview

1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. 2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. 3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape. 4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. 5 You are all sons of light, and sons of the day. We don't belong to the night, nor to darkness,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 16:8, John 12:36, Acts 26:18, Ephesians 5:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:5 - and Leviticus 11:16 - General Proverbs 2:13 - walk Isaiah 2:5 - come ye Isaiah 49:9 - to them Matthew 5:14 - the light Mark 13:33 - General Luke 1:79 - give Luke 4:18 - and Luke 12:38 - General John 12:35 - Walk Acts 2:15 - seeing Romans 13:11 - it is Romans 13:12 - works Philippians 1:7 - it is 1 Thessalonians 5:8 - who 1 John 2:8 - the darkness Revelation 3:3 - I will

Cross-References

Genesis 3:19
By the sweat of your face will you eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
Genesis 5:7
Seth lived after he became the father of Enosh eight hundred seven years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:8
All the days of Seth were nine hundred twelve years, then he died.
Genesis 5:10
Enosh lived after he became the father of Kenan, eight hundred fifteen years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:11
All the days of Enosh were nine hundred five years, then he died.
Genesis 5:12
Kenan lived seventy years, and became the father of Mahalalel.
Genesis 5:14
and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.
Genesis 5:21
Enoch lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Methuselah.
Genesis 5:22
Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.
Genesis 5:32
Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye are all children of light,.... Or enlightened persons, whose understandings were enlightened by the spirit of God, to see their lost state by nature, the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the insufficiency of their righteousness to justify them before God, the fulness, suitableness, and excellency of Christ's righteousness, the way of salvation by Christ, and that it is all of grace from first to last; to understand in some measure the Scriptures of truth, and the mysteries of the Gospel; to have knowledge of some things that are yet to be done on earth, as the bringing in of the fulness of the Gentiles, the conversion of the Jews, the destruction of antichrist, the second coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the change of living saints, and the rapture of both up into the air to meet Christ, the burning of the world, and the new heavens and new earth, where Christ and his saints will dwell; as also to have some glimpse of the heavenly glory, of the unseen joys, and invisible realities of the other world: and this the apostle says of them all, in a judgment of charity, as being under a profession of the grace of God, and in a church state, and nothing appearing against them why such a character did not belong to them:

and the children of the day; of the Gospel day, in distinction from the night of Jewish darkness; and of the day of grace which was come upon their souls, in opposition to the night of ignorance and infidelity, which was past; and of the everlasting day of glory, being heirs of, and having a right unto, and a meetness for the inheritance of the saints in light:

we are not of the night, nor of darkness; that is not the children of darkness, as the Syriac and Arabic versions read; and the former changes the person, and reads, "ye are not the children of the night", c. of the night of the legal dispensation, or of Gentile ignorance or of a state of natural darkness, in unregeneracy and was no need to write unto them concerning the time and season of Christ's coming, and lays a foundation for the following exhortations.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye are all the children of light - All who are Christians. The phrase” children of light” is a Hebraism, meaning that they were the enlightened children of God.

And the children of the day - Who live as if light always shone round about them. The meaning is, that in reference to the coming of the Lord they are as people would be in reference to the coming of a thief, if there were no night and no necessity of slumber. They would always be wakeful and active, and it would be impossible to come upon them by surprise. Christians are always to be wakeful and vigilant; they are so to expect the coming of the Redeemer, that he will not find them off their guard, and will not come upon them by surprise.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Thessalonians 5:5. Ye are all the children of light — Ye are children of God, and enjoy both his light and life. Ye are Christians-ye belong to him who has brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel. This dispensation, under which ye are, has illustrated all the preceding dispensations; in its light all is become luminous; and ye, who walked formerly in heathen ignorance, or in the darkness of Jewish prejudices, are now light in the Lord, because ye have believed in him who is the light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory and splendour of his people Israel.

We are not of the night, nor of darkness. — Our actions are such as we are not afraid to expose to the fullest and clearest light. Sinners hate the light; they are enemies to knowledge; they love darkness; they will not receive instructions; and their deeds are such as cannot bear the light.


 
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