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1 ) But of the times and the seasons, brethren, all of you have no need that I write unto you.
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2 ) For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
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3 ) For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
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4 ) But all of you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
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5 ) All of you are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
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6 ) Therefore let us not sleep, as do others, but let us watch and be sober.
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7 ) For they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
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8 ) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
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9 ) For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
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10 ) Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
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11 ) Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also all of you do.