6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.

7 For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

8 But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,