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.
and for a helmet, the hope of salvation: In Paul’s view there are no greater Christian attributes than faith, love, and hope (1 Corinthians 13:13). He never tires of joining them in the same passage (Romans 5:1-5; 1 Thessalonians 1:3).