1 Thes 5:1-11

Vigilance. 1Concerning times and seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you.^a 2For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.^b 3When people are saying, “Peace and security,” then sudden disaster comes upon them, like labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.

4But you, brothers, are not in darkness, for that day to overtake you like a thief.^c 5For all of you are children of the light^* and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. 6Therefore, let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us stay alert and sober.^d 7Those who sleep go to sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. 8But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and the helmet that is hope for salvation.^e 9For God did not destine us for wrath, but to gain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live together with him.^* 11Therefore, encourage one another and build one another up, as indeed you do.^f