1 Thessalonians 5

¹Bvt of the times and seasons, brethren, yee haue no neede that I write vnto you.

²For ye your selues knowe perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come, euen as a thiefe in the night.

³For when they shall say, Peace, and safetie, then shall come vpon them sudden destruction, as the trauaile vpon a woman with childe, and they shall not escape,

⁴But ye, brethren, are not in darkenes, that that day shall come on you, as it were a thiefe.

⁵Yee are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkenesse.

⁶Therefore let vs not sleepe as do other, but let vs watch and be sober.

⁷For they that sleepe, sleepe in the night, and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.

⁸But let vs which are of the day, be sober, putting on the brest plate of faith and loue, and of the hope of saluation for an helmet.

⁹For God hath not appointed vs vnto wrath, but to obtaine saluation by the meanes of our Lord Iesus Christ,

¹⁰Which died for vs, that whether we wake or sleepe, we should liue together with him.

¹¹Wherefore exhort one another, and edifie one another, euen as ye doe.

¹²Nowe we beseeche you, brethren, that ye acknowledge them, which labour among you, and are ouer you in the Lord, and admonish you,

¹³That yee haue them in singular loue for their workes sake. Bee at peace among your selues.