Living_Oracles(i)
1 However, concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write to you:
2 for yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.
3 When they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should come upon you like a thief.
5 You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not sons of night, nor of darkness.
6 Therefore, let us not sleep, even as others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they who sleep, sleep in the night; and they who get drunk, get drunk in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For God has appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation, through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together, with him.
10 Wherefore, comfort one another, and edify each other, even as also you do.
11 Wherefore, comfort one another, and edify each other, even as also you do.