1. Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need of anything to be written to you,
2. for you yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the same way as a thief in the night.
3. Whenever they say “Peace and security,” then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of a pregnant woman, and they will not possibly escape.
4. But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief,
5. for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
6. So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled.
7. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.