^{2 Ref} For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

^{3 Ref} When 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.

^{4 Ref} But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

^{5 Ref} for ye are all sons of light, and sons of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;

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

^{7 Ref} For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.