1 But concerning the times and the seasons,
brothers, you have no need that anything
be written to you.

2 For you yourselves know well that the
day of the Lord comes like a thief in the
night.

3 For when they are saying, “Peace and
safety,” then sudden destruction will come
on them, like birth pains on a pregnant
woman. Then they will in no way escape.

4 But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness,
that the day should overtake you like a
thief.

5 You are all children of light and children
of the day. We don’t belong to the
night, nor to darkness,

6 so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but
let’s watch and be sober.

7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night;
and those who are drunk are drunk in the
night.

8 But since we belong to the day, let’s be
sober, putting on the breastplate of faith
and love, and for a helmet, the hope of
salvation.

9 For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but
to the obtaining of salvation through our
Lord Jesus Christ,

10 who died for us, that, whether we
wake or sleep, we shouldlive together with
him.

11 Therefore exhort one another, and
build each other up, even as you also do.

12 But we beg you, brothers, to know
those who labor among you, and are over
you in the Lord and admonish you,

13 and to respect and honor them in love
for their work’s sake. Be at peace
among yourselves.