So then, we must not sleep like the rest, but must be on the alert and be self-controlled.

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept complete, blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

pray constantly,

but examine all [things]; hold fast to [what is] good.

Rejoice always,

give thanks in everything; for this [is] the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

Therefore encourage one another and build up {each other}, just as indeed you are doing.

But [because] we are of the day, we must be sober, [by] putting on the breastplate of faith and love and [as] a helmet the hope of salvation,

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need [of anything] to be written to you,

Do not quench the Spirit.

who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live at the same time with him.

and to esteem them beyond all measure in love, because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

See to it that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue good toward one another and toward all [people].

Do not despise prophecies,

The one who calls you [is] faithful, who also will do [this].

But you, brothers, are not in the darkness, so that the day should catch you like a thief,

for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

Brothers, pray for us.

I adjure you by the Lord, have this letter read aloud to all the brothers.

Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you.

Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who labor among you and rule over you in the Lord and admonish you,

And we urge you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, console the discouraged, help the sick, be patient toward all [people].

for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night.

because God did not appoint us for wrath, but for the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Abstain from every form of evil.

Whenever they say "Peace and security," then sudden destruction will overtake them like the birth pains of {a pregnant woman}, and they will not possibly escape.