1 Thessalonians 5:2-8

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² For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.^{(A) 3} When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!^{(B) 4} But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief;^{(C) 5} for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. ⁶ So, then, let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober,^{(D) 7} for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night.^{(E) 8} But since we belong to the day, let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love and for a helmet the hope of salvation.^(F)