³⁸ It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.

⁶ “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

⁴ But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness^(A) so that this day should surprise you like a thief.^{(B) 5} You are all children of the light^(C) and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.