1. But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
2. For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
3. For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.
4. But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
5. You are all children of light, and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
6. so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
7. For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
8. But let’s, since we belong to the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and, for a helmet, the hope of salvation.