¹But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
²For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
³For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
⁴But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
⁵Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
⁶Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
⁷For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
⁸But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
⁹For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

King James Version 1611 (Authorized Version). Copyright status: UK English with BFBS additions © 2011 British and Foreign Bible Society; Crown Copyright in UK