1 Thessalonians 5:1-9

Tree of Life Version

Keep Watch for the Day of the Lord

5 Now concerning the times and seasons,^[a] brothers and sisters, you have no need for anything to be written to you. ² For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord^[b] comes like a thief in the night. ³ When they are saying, “Shalom and safety,”^[c] sudden destruction comes upon them like a woman having birth pains in the womb—there is no way they will escape. ⁴ But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, so that the Day might overtake you like a thief. ^{[d] 5} For you all are sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night or of darkness— ⁶ so then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain on the alert and sober-minded. ⁷ For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. ⁸ But since we are of the day, let us be sober-minded—putting on the breastplate of faithfulness and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. ^{[e] 9} For God did not destine us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.