5About the times and the seasons:^f Brothers and sisters, you do not need anything to be written to you. ²For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord^g will come just like a thief^h in the night. ³When they say, “Peace and security,” then sudden destructionⁱ will come upon them, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. ⁴But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, for this day to surprise you like a thief.^j ⁵For you are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.^k ⁶So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay awake and be self-controlled. ⁷For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled^l and put on the armor^m of faith and love, and a helmetⁿ of the hope of salvation. ⁹For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord^o Jesus Christ,^p ¹⁰who died for us,^q so that whether we are awake or asleep,^r we may live together with him.^s ¹¹Therefore encourage one another and build each other up as you are already doing.

Read in Logos

1 Thessalonians 5:11: Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

Cross references

f Dn 2:21; Ac 1:7
g Jl 2:1; Mt 25:13; Ac 2:20; Php 1:6
h Jn 10:1
i 2Th 1:9
j Jb 24:13–17
k Col 1:13
l 1Pt 5:8
m Eph 6:14; Rv 9:9,17
n 1Sm 17:5,38; Ps 60:7; 108:8; Is 59:17; Eph 6:17
o Rv 11:8
p Ac 15:26
q Jn 11:51; Rm 14:9; 1Co 8:11; Gl 1:4
r 1Th 5:6
s Lk 20:38; Php 1:23