1Thessalonians:5:1-10
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:1 @ But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:3 @ When people say, "There is peace and security," then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:4 @ But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:5 @ For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:6 @ So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:7 @ For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:8 @ 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.
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:9 @ For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
rsv@1Thessalonians:5:10 @ who died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him.