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

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

6 Therefore let us not sleep as the others, but let us awake and keep awake.

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

8 But let us who are of the day keep awake, having put on the breast-plate of faith and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation.

9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath,