¹Brothers and sisters, you don’t need anyone to write to you about times and dates. ²You know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. ³When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape. ⁴But, brothers and sisters, you don’t live in the dark. That day won’t take you by surprise as a thief would. ⁵You belong to the day and the light not to the night and the dark. ⁶Therefore, we must not fall asleep like other people, but we must stay awake and be sober. ⁷People who sleep, sleep at night; people who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸Since we belong to the day, we must be sober. We must put on faith and love as a breastplate and the hope of salvation as a helmet. ⁹It was not God’s intention that we experience his anger but that we obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰He died for us so that, whether we are awake in this life or asleep in death, we will live together with him. ¹¹Therefore, encourage each other and strengthen one another as you are doing.

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