MLV(i)
1 Now brethren, you have no need for anything to be written to you concerning the times and the seasons.
2 For you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes like a thief in the night.
3 For whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-destruction stands by them, just-like the travail a woman has in her womb, and they may never flee away from it.
4 But brethren, you are not in darkness, in order that the day might overtake you like a thief.
5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness;
6 Therefore consequently, we should not sleep, like the rest also do, but let us watch and be sober.
7 For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night.
8 But we, being of the day, should be sober; having clothed yourselves with the breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet-- the hope of salvation.
9 Because God appointed us not for wrath, but for the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
10 who died on our behalf, in order that, whether we should watch or sleep, we should live together with him at the same time.
11 Hence, encourage one another and build up one by one, just-as you are also practicing.