¹And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you, ²for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come, ³for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail doth her who is with child, and they shall not escape; ⁴and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief; ⁵all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness.

⁶So, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober, ⁷for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken, ⁸and we, being of the day—let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet—a hope of salvation, ⁹because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰who did die for us, that whether we wake—whether we sleep—together with him we may live.

¹¹Wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

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

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