15See that no one pays back wrong for wrong, but at all times make it your aim to do good to one another and to all people.ġ6Be joyful always, 17pray at all times, 18be thankful in all circumstances. Be at peace among yourselves.ġ4We urge you, our friends, to warn the idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone. 13Treat them with the greatest respect and love because of the work they do. 11And so encourage one another and help one another, just as you are now doing.ġ2We beg you, our friends, to pay proper respect to those who work among you, who guide and instruct you in the Christian life. 9God did not choose us to suffer his anger, but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10who died for us in order that we might live together with him, whether we are alive or dead when he comes.

We must wear faith and love as a breastplate, and our hope of salvation as a helmet. 8 But we belong to the day, and we should be sober. 7It is at night when people sleep it is at night when they get drunk. 6So then, we should not be sleeping like the others we should be awake and sober. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 5All of you are people who belong to the light, who belong to the day.

4But you, friends, are not in the darkness, and the Day should not take you by surprise like a thief. 3When people say, “Everything is quiet and safe,” then suddenly destruction will hit them! It will come as suddenly as the pains that come upon a woman in labor, and people will not escape. 2 For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night. 1There is no need to write you, friends, about the times and occasions when these things will happen.

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