² For you yourselves know perfectly that ^(A)the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. ³ For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then ^(B)sudden destruction comes upon them, ^(C)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. ^4 (D)But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵ You are all ^(E)sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. ^6 (F)Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but ^(G)let us watch and be ^[a]sober. ⁷ For ^(H)those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk ^(I)are drunk at night.

The Importance of Watching^(A)

³⁴ “But ^(B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with ^[a]carousing, drunkenness, and ^(C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.

²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the ^(A)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and ^(B)destroyed them all. ^28 (C)Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but on ^(D)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.