Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

But You Know The Day of The Lord Will Come Like a Thief In The Night. Keep Watching

5 But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything should be written to you. ² For you yourselves accurately know that the day of the Lord comes in this manner— like a thief in the night. ³ When they are saying “peace and security”, then unexpected^[a] destruction suddenly-comes-upon^[b] them, just as the birth-pain on the one having a child in the womb. And they will by no means escape. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that the day should overtake you like a thief. ⁵ For you all are sons of ^[c] light and sons of day. We are not of night, nor of darkness. ⁶ So then, let us not be sleeping like the others, but let us be keeping-watch^[d] and being sober. ⁷ For the ones sleeping are sleeping at night. And the ones getting-drunk are-drunk at night. ⁸ But let us, being of the day, be sober, having put on a breastplate of faith and love, and a helmet: the hope of salvation. ⁹ Because God did not appoint^[e] us for wrath, but for the obtaining^[f] of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ— ¹⁰ the One having died for us in order that whether we are keeping-watch or sleeping^[g], we may live together with Him. ¹¹ Therefore be encouraging one another and building-up one the other, just as you are also doing.