7. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
8. But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the breastplate of belief and love, and as a helmet the expectation of deliverance.
9. Because Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master יהושע Messiah,
10. who died for us, so that we, whether awake or asleep, should live together with Him.
11. Therefore encourage one another, and build up one another, as indeed you do.
12. But brothers, we beg you to know those who labour among you, and are over you in the Master and admonish you,