✧1But 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.
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✧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.
✧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.