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

¹ But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write to you. ² For ye yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. ³ When they say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. ⁴ But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. ⁵ Ye are all children of the light and children of the day: we are not children of the night, nor of darkness. ⁶ Therefore let us not sleep as the others, but let us awake and keep awake. ⁷ For they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. ⁸ But let us who are of the day keep awake, having put on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation. ⁹ For God hath not appointed us to wrath, ¹⁰ but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him. ¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another and edify one another, as also ye do.