Brothers and sisters, we don’t have 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. ³People 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.

⁴Brothers and sisters, you are not in darkness. So that day should not surprise you as a thief would. ⁵All 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.

⁶So let us not be like the others. They are asleep. Instead, let us be wide awake and in full control of ourselves.

⁷Those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸But 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.

⁹God didn’t choose us to receive his anger. He chose us to receive salvation because of what our Lord Jesus Christ has done.

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1 Thessalonians 5:6: So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.