But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
1 Thessalonians 5:4 in context
1 Thessalonians 5:1–7
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But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you.
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For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
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For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.
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But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.
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You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,
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so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
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For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
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