1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 - The Sudden Arrival Of The Day Of The Lord

¹ Now as to the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. ² You yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. ³ While men are saying "Peace and safety," then, like birth-pangs upon a woman with child, destruction will come upon them suddenly. In no wise will they escape. ⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that "the Day" should come upon you like a bandit. ⁵ For you are all sons of light, and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness. ⁶ So then let us not be sleeping as do the rest, but let us be watchful and self-controlled. ⁷ For those who are sleeping, sleep in the night, and those who are drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day be self-controlled, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁰ He died for us, in order that whether we are keeping vigil in life or sleeping in death we may ever be living together with him. ¹¹ So comfort one another, and try to build one another up, as indeed you are doing.