^{1 Ref} And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

^{2 Ref} for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

^{3 Ref} for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

^{4 Ref} and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

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

^{6 Ref} so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

^{7 Ref} for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

^{8 Ref} and we, being of the day -- let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet -- a hope of salvation,

^{9 Ref} because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

^{10 Ref} who did die for us, that whether we wake -- whether we sleep -- together with him we may live;

^{11 Ref} wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.