[5:1] Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you.
[5:2] For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
[5:3] While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
[5:4] But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
[5:5] For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
[5:6] So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
[5:7] For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.
[5:8] But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.
[5:9] For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
[5:10] who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.
[5:11] Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.