1 Thessalonians 3:7

3:7 So ¹  in all our distress and affliction, we were reassured about you, brothers and sisters, ²  through your faith.

1 Thessalonians 5:8-9

5:8 But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate ³  of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation. ⁴  5:9 For God did not destine us for wrath ⁵  but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹ tn Or “for this reason.”

² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.

³ sn An allusion to Isa 59:17.

⁴ tn Grk “hope of salvation” (“a helmet…for salvation” is an allusion to Isa 59:17).

⁵ sn God did not destine us for wrath. In context this refers to the outpouring of God’s wrath on the earth in the day of the Lord (1 Thess 5:2-4).