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.
10 He died for us so that, whether we are awake in this life or asleep in death, we will live together with him.
11 Therefore, encourage each other and strengthen one another as you are doing.