1. Now, brothers, as to the times and the seasons, you do not need to be written to.
2. For you yourselves know very well that the day of יהוה comes as a thief in the night.
3. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.
4. But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.
5. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
6. So, then, we should not sleep, as others do, but we should watch and be sober.
7. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
8. But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the breastplate of belief and love, and as a helmet the expectation of deliverance.
9. Because Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master יהושע Messiah,