4 You do not live in the dark. That day should not overtake you by surprise as a thief would.

5 You are all the children sons of light, and the children of the day. We are not of the night, not of darkness.

6 Therefore, let us not sleep like others do. But let us watch and be sober.

7 They that sleep do so in the night. They that get drunk are drunk in the night.

8 Let us be sober and put on the breastplate of faith and love; and the hope of salvation as a helmet.

9 For God has not appointed us to experience his wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.