3When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
4But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:
5For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.
6So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.
7For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
8But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.
9For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
