1 Thessalonians 5

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.

¹²And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

¹³and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;