4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should take you as a thief.

5 Ye are all the sons of light, and the sons of the day; we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

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

7 For those that sleep sleep in the night, and those that are drunken are drunken in the night.

8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and charity, and for a helmet, the hope of saving health.

9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain saving health by our Lord Jesus Christ,