MLV(i)
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.