• 5:1But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need for anything to be written to you;
• 5:2For you yourselves know perfectly well that like a thief in the night, so the day of the Lord comes.
• 5:3When they say, Peace and security, then sudden destruction comes upon them, just as birth pangs to a woman with child; and they shall by no means escape.
• 5:4But you, brothers, are not in darkness that the day should overtake you like a thief;
• 5:5For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.
• 5:6So then let us not sleep as the rest do, but let us watch and be sober.
• 5:7For those who sleep, sleep during the night, and those who get drunk are drunk during the night;
• 5:8But since we are of the day, let us be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love and a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• 5:9For God did not appoint us to wrath but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
• 5:10Who died for us in order that whether we watch or sleep, we may live together with Him.
• 5:11Therefore comfort one another, and build up each one the other, even as you also do.
• 5:12Furthermore we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who labor among you and take the lead among you in the Lord and admonish you,
• 5:13And to regard them most highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
• 5:14And we exhort you, brothers, Admonish the disorderly, console the fainthearted, sustain the weak, be long-suffering toward all.
• 5:15See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always pursue what is good both for one another and for all.
• 5:16Always rejoice,
• 5:17Unceasingly pray,
• 5:18In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
• 5:19Do not quench the Spirit;
• 5:20Do not despise prophecies,
• 5:21But prove all things. Hold fast to what is good;
• 5:22Abstain from every kind of evil.
• 5:23And the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 5:24Faithful is He who calls you, who also will do it.
• 5:25Brothers, pray also for us.
• 5:26Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.
• 5:27I adjure you by the Lord to have this letter read to all the brothers.
• 5:28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.