New Testament · SCRIPTURE
1 Thessalonians 5:9
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For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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because God did not set us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
1 Thessalonians 5
7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.
9 For God has not appointed us to suffer wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
11 Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing.
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