4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5. Ye are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; 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, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breast-plate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,