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 who get 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,