1. But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
2. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
3. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5. You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7. For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunk are drunk in the night.
8. But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9. For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,