4 But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that the Day should overtake you like a thief.

5 You are all the sons of light and the sons of the day. We are not of the night, or of darkness.

6 Therefore let us not sleep as the rest [do], but let us watch and be calm.

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

8 But let us, who are of the day, be calm, having put on [the] breastplate of faith and love and [the] hope of salvation [for] a helmet.

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