You are witnesses, and God, how piously, and righteously, and blamelessly we were with you that believe,

who also killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God and are hostile to all men,

For you are our glory and joy.

that no one should be moved by these afflictions. For you know that we are appointed for this;

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I should write to you; for you are taught by God to love one another;

But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the day should come upon you like a thief;

for you are all children of light, and children of day; we are not of night nor of darkness.

For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that are drunk drink in the night;

but let us who are of day be sober, putting on a cuirass of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation,