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But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you.

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For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child and they will not be able to get away from it.

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But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:

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For you are all sons of light and of the day: we are not of the night or of the dark.

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So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.

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For those who are sleeping do so in the night and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night

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But let us, who are of the day, be serious, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and on our heads, the hope of salvation.

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For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

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Who was put to death for us, so that, awake or sleeping, we may have a part in his life.

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So then, go on comforting and building up one another, as you have been doing.