6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;

8 But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

9 For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,