3 When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape.
4 But you, friends, are not in the darkness, and the Day should not take you by surprise like a thief.
5 All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
6 So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober.
7 It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk.
8 But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.
9 God did not choose us to suffer his anger, but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,