✧But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. ✧2For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. ✧3For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. ✧4But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. ✧5You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, ✧6so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. ✧7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. ✧8But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. ✧9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to 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. ✧11Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do. ✧12But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, ✧13and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves. ✧14We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all. ✧15See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all. ✧16Always rejoice. ✧17Pray without ceasing. ✧18In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you. ✧19Don’t quench the Spirit. ✧20Don’t despise prophecies. ✧21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. ✧22Abstain from every form of evil. ✧23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ✧24He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it. ✧25Brothers, pray for us. ✧26Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. ✧27I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers. ✧28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.