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1 Thessalonians 5
1 Thessalonians 5:6
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So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober.
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But you, friends, are not in the darkness, and the Day should not take you by surprise like a thief.
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All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.
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So then, we should not be sleeping like the others; we should be awake and sober.
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It is at night when people sleep; it is at night when they get drunk.
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But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.