Times and dates
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📚But about the times and the seasons✭, brethren, you have no need that I write to you. 2 📚For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord✭ will come like a thief in the night✭.3 📚For when they say, “Peace✭ and safety”, then sudden✭ destruction✭ will come on them, as labour pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. 4 📚✭But you, brethren, are not in darkness✭, that day should overtake you✭ like a thief.
Living as children of the Light
5 📚You are all children of light✭ and children of the day. We are not of the night or of darkness. 6 📚So let us not sleep✭, as others do, but let us watch✭ and be sober✭. 7 📚For those who sleep, sleep at night; and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. 8 📚But let us who belong to the day✭, be sober, putting on the breastplate✭ of faith and love, and as a helmet✭, the hope of salvation.
9 📚For God has not appointed us to wrath✭, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 📚who died for us✭ so that whether we are awake or asleep, we should live together with him✭.
11 📚Therefore encourage✭ each other, and edify one another✭, just as you are doing.
Closing remarks
12 📚And we urge you, brethren, to pay attention to those who labour among you, and are over you✭ in the Lord✭ and admonish you, 13 📚and to regard them very highly in love for their work’s sake. And be at peace✭ among yourselves.
14 📚Now we exhort you, brethren, to warn those who are unruly, to comfort the fainthearted✭, help the weak✭, and be patient with everyone. 15 📚See that no one pays back to anyone wrong for wrong✭, but always follow what is good, both for yourselves, and for everyone.
16 📚Rejoice✭ always. 17 📚✭Pray without ceasing. 18 📚✭In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God✭ in Christ Jesus for you.
19 📚Do not quench the Spirit✭. 20 📚Do not despise prophecies✭. 21 📚Test✭ everything, hold firmly what is good. 22 📚✭Keep away from every form of evil.
23 📚And may the very God of peace✭ sanctify✭ you completely✭. And I pray God that your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless✭ until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 📚He who calls you is faithful✭, and he will also do it.✭
25 📚Brethren, pray for us. 26 📚Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss✭. 27 📚✭I charge you by the Lord to have this letter read to all the holy brethren.
28 📚The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.