1 THESSALONIANS 5
G. Its Watchfulness and Soberness
1. The Day of the Lord
Coming like a Thief
of Faith, Love, and Hope
G. Its Watchfulness and Soberness
1. The Day of the Lord
Coming like a Thief
- But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you;
- For you yourselves know perfectly well that like a thief in the night, so the day of the Lord comes.
- When they say, Peace and security, then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as birth pangs to a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape.
of Faith, Love, and Hope
- But you, brothers, are not in darkness that the day should overtake you like a thief;
- For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
- So then let us not sleep, as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.
- For those who sleep, sleep during the night, and those who get drunk are drunk during the night;
- But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and a helmet, the hope of salvation.
- For God did not appoint us to wrath but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
- Who died for us in order that whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with Him.
- Therefore comfort one another, and build up each one the other, even as you also do.