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## 1 Thessalonians 5:3-7 in Context (Verses 1–10 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/1) But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
 
 [2 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/2) For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
 
 [3 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/3) For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
 
 [4 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/4) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
 
 [5 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
 
 [6 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/6) Therefore let us not sleep, as *do* others; but let us watch and be sober.
 
 [7 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/7) For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/8) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
 
 [9 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/9) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
 
 [10 ](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/10) Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
 
[1 Thessalonians 4](/kjv/1-thessalonians/4) [2 Thessalonians 1](/kjv/2-thessalonians/1)

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