5Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need of anything to be written to you, ²for you yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the same way as a thief in the night. ³Whenever they say “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of a pregnant woman^a, and they will not possibly escape. ⁴But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief, ⁵for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

⁶So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled. ⁷For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. ⁸But because^b we are of the day, we must be sober, by^c putting on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation, ⁹because God did not appoint us for wrath, but for the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him. ¹¹Therefore encourage one another and build up each other^d, just as indeed 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.

Footnotes

aLiterally “one who has in the belly”
bHere “because” is supplied as a component of the participle (“are”) which is understood as causal
cHere “by” is supplied as a component of the participle (“putting on”) which is understood as means
dLiterally “one the one,” i.e., “one the other”