1 Tesalonika 3:8

3:8 For now we are alive again, ¹  if you stand firm in the Lord.

1 Tesalonika 5:5-8

5:5 For you all are sons of the light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of the darkness. 5:6 So then we must not sleep as the rest, but must stay alert and sober. 5:7 For those who sleep, sleep at night and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 5:8 But since we are of the day, we must stay sober by putting on the breastplate ²  of faith and love and as a helmet our hope for salvation. ³ 

[3:8]  ¹ tn Grk “because now we live,” in comparison with his feelings of dread in not knowing how they were doing (cf. 2:17-3:5).

[5:8]  ² sn An allusion to Isa 59:17.

[5:8]  ³ tn Grk “hope of salvation” (“a helmet…for salvation” is an allusion to Isa 59:17).