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

¹ Of the times and seasons brethren ye have no need that I write unto you: ² for ye your selves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall come even as a thief in the night. ³ For when they shall say, "Peace, no danger," then cometh on them sudden destruction, as the travailing of a woman with child, and they shall not escape. ⁴ But ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day should come on you as it were a thief. ⁵ Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, neither of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep as do others: but let us watch and be sober. ⁷ For they that sleep, sleep in the night: and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us which are of the day be sober, armed with the breast plate of faith and love, and with hope of salvation as a helmet. ⁹ For God hath not appointed us unto wrath: but to obtain salvation by the means of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰ which died for us: that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. ¹¹ Wherefore, comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as ye do.