6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake.7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;8 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.9 For God's purpose for us is not wrath, but salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,