1 Now concerning the times and seasons, brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you.
2 For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
3 When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,” sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape.
4 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, so that the Day might overtake you like a thief.
5 For you all are sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night or of darkness—
6 so then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain on the alert and sober-minded.
7 For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.