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For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.

For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night.

But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.

For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him.

See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Brothers, pray for us.

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.

This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—

To this end we always pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling and may fulfill every resolve for good and every work of faith by his power,

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.

and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

Finally, brothers, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may speed ahead and be honored, as happened among you,

and that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men. For not all have faith.