But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, for this day to surprise you like a thief.(A) For you are all children of light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or the darkness.(B) So then, let us not sleep, like the rest, but let us stay awake and be self-controlled. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled(C) and put on the armor(D) of faith and love, and a helmet(E) of the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord(F) Jesus Christ,(G) 10 who died for us,(H) so that whether we are awake or asleep,(I) we may live together with him.(J)

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