✧But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you. ✧2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. ✧3When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape. ✧4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief: ✧5for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness; ✧6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. ✧7For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. ✧8But 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. ✧9For God appointed us not unto wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ✧10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. ✧11Wherefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as also ye do. ✧12But we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you; ✧13and to esteem them exceeding highly in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves. ✧14And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be longsuffering toward all. ✧15See that none render unto any one evil for evil; but always follow after that which is good, one toward another, and toward all. ✧16Rejoice always; ✧17pray without ceasing; ✧18in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward. ✧19Quench not the Spirit; ✧20despise not prophesyings; ✧21prove all things; hold fast that which is good; ✧22abstain from every form of evil. ✧23And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ✧24Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it. ✧25Brethren, pray for us. ✧26Salute all the brethren with a holy kiss. ✧27I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the brethren. ✧28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.