4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those[ ]getting drunk, are drunk at night.

8 But we, since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet, the hope of salvation.

9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to [the] obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,