3. When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:
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 be 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 unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,