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

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 

[3:7]  ¹ tn Or “for this reason.”

[3:7]  ² tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:4.

[5:8]  ³ sn An allusion to Isa 59:17.

[5:8]  ⁴ tn Grk “hope of salvation” (“a helmet…for salvation” is an allusion to Isa 59:17).