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.
9. For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah,
10. who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
11. Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.
12. But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,