3 When people say, “Everything is safe and sound!” destruction will suddenly strike them. It will be as sudden as labor pains come to a pregnant woman. They won’t be able to escape.
4 But, brothers and sisters, you don’t live in the dark. That day won’t take you by surprise as a thief would.
5 You belong to the day and the light not to the night and the dark.
6 Therefore, we must not fall asleep like other people, but we must stay awake and be sober.
7 People who sleep, sleep at night; people who get drunk, get drunk at night.
8 Since we belong to the day, we must be sober. We must put on faith and love as a breastplate and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
9 It was not God’s intention that we experience his anger but that we obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.