First Reading1 Thessalonians 5:1-6, 9-11
From the First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians
1But concerning the times and the seasons,brothers, you have no needthat anything be written to you.2For you yourselves know wellthat the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.3For when they are saying,“Peace and safety,”then sudden destruction will come on them,like birth pains on a pregnant woman.Then they will in no way escape.4But you, brothers,aren’t in darkness,that the day should overtake you like a thief.5You are all children of light and children of the day.We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness,6so then let’s not sleep,as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. verses 7–8 are not read9For God didn’t appoint us to wrath,but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,10who died for us, that,whether we wake or sleep,we should live together with him.11Therefore exhort one another,and build each other up,even as you also do.