⁸ But since we belong to the day,^(A) let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate,^(B) and the hope of salvation^(C) as a helmet.^{(D) 9} For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath^(E) but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.^{(F) 10} He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.^{(G) 11} Therefore encourage one another^(H) and build each other up,^(I) just as in fact you are doing.

¹² See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.^{(A) 13} But encourage one another daily,^(B) as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.^{(C) 14} We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold^(D) our original conviction firmly to the very end.^(E)