5. for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;
6. so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.
7. For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
8. But let us, since we 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 appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,