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5:1 But as to the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need to have anything written to you. 5:2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 5:3 When people say, 'There is peace and security,' then sudden destruction will come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child, and there will be no escape. 5:4 But you are not in darkness, brethren, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5:5 For you are all sons of light and sons of the day;we are not of the night or of darkness. 5:6 So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. 5:7 For those who sleep sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 5:8 But, since we belong to the day, let us be sober, and put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. 5:9 For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 5:10 who died for us so that whether we wake or sleep we might live with him. 5:11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. 5:12 But we beseech you, brethren, to respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, 5:13 and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves. 5:14 And we exhort you, brethren, admonish the idlers, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with them all. 5:15 See that none of you repays evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to all. 5:16 Rejoice always, 5:17 pray constantly, 5:18 give thanks in all circumstances;for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. 5:19 Do not quench the Spirit, 5:20 do not despise prophesying, 5:21 but test everything;hold fast what is good, 5:22 abstain from every form of evil. 5:23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly;and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 5:24 He who calls you is faithful, and he will do it. 5:25 Brethren, pray for us. 5:26 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss. 5:27 I adjure you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the brethren. 5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.