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¹ But of the times and seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write to you.² For ye yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.³ When they say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.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,¹⁰ but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him.

¹¹ Wherefore comfort one another and edify one another, as also ye do.¹² Now we beseech you, brethren, to know them that labour among you,¹³ and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, And to esteem them very highly in love for their works sake, and be at peace among yourselves.¹⁴ Now we exhort you, brethren, warn the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be long suffering toward all men.¹⁵ See that none render to any man evil for evil, but ever follow that which is good, both to one another and to all men.

¹⁶ Rejoice evermore:¹⁷ Pray without ceasing: In every thing give thanks;¹⁸ for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.¹⁹ Quench not the Spirit.²⁰ Despise not prophesyings.²¹ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.²² Abstain from all appearance of evil.

²³ And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and may the whole of you, the spirit and the soul and the body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.²⁴ Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.²⁵ Brethren, pray for us.²⁶ Salute all the brethren with an holy kiss.²⁷ I charge you by the Lord, that this epistle be read to all the brethren.²⁸ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.