For you are all (A)children[a] of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. So then (B)let us not sleep, as others do, but let us (C)keep awake and (D)be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, (E)are drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, (F)having put on the breastplate of (G)faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 5:5 Or sons; twice in this verse

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