1 Thessalonians 5 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the Day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they are saying, “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 the children of light and the children of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ