6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night: and those who are drunk, are drunk in the night.

8 But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

9 For God did not appoint us into wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,