World English Bible
"For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,"
— 1 Thessalonians 5:9, World English Bible
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
“For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ”
“For God did not destine us for wrath but for gaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
“For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but unto the purchasing of salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
“For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,”
“For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,”
so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober.
For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
But let us, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
For God didn't appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,