1. Brothers and sisters, we don't have to write to you about times and dates.
2. You know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
3. People will be saying that everything is peaceful and safe. Then suddenly they will be destroyed. It will happen like birth pains coming on a pregnant woman. None of the people will escape.
4. Brothers and sisters, you are not in darkness. So that day should not surprise you as a thief would.
5. All of you are children of the light. You are children of the day. We don't belong to the night. We don't belong to the darkness.
6. So let us not be like the others. They are asleep. Instead, let us be wide awake and in full control of ourselves.
7. Those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
8. But we belong to the day. So let us control ourselves. Let us put the armor of faith and love on our chest. Let us put on the hope of salvation like a helmet.
9. God didn't choose us to receive his anger. He chose us to receive salvation because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done.