1. BUT AS to the suitable times and the precise seasons and dates, brethren, you have no necessity for anything being written to you.
2. For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night.
3. When people are saying, All is well and secure, and, There is peace and safety, then in a moment unforeseen destruction (ruin and death) will come upon them as suddenly as labor pains come upon a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape, for there will be no escape.
4. But you are not in [given up to the power of] darkness, brethren, for that day to overtake you by surprise like a thief.