1Th 5:4-8 | ESV | STEP | But you are not in darkness , brothers , for that day to surprise you like a thief .

1 Thessalonians 5:4-8

4 But you ^aare not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. 5 For you are all ^bchildren ^{▼▼Or sons; twice in this verse} of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. 6 So then ^dlet us not sleep, as others do, but let us ^ekeep awake and ^fbe sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, ^gare drunk at night. 8 But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, ^hhaving put on the breastplate of ⁱfaith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation.