3 While people are saying, “We have peace and we are safe,” they will be destroyed quickly. It is like pains that come quickly to a woman having a baby. Those people will not escape.
4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not living in darkness, and so that day will not surprise you like a thief.
5 You are all people who belong to the light and to the day. We do not belong to the night or to darkness.
6 So we should not be like other people who are sleeping, but we should be alert and have self-control.
7 Those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
8 But we belong to the day, so we should control ourselves. We should wear faith and love to protect us, and the hope of salvation should be our helmet.
9 God did not choose us to suffer his anger but to have salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.