MODERN LITERAL VERSION

5:1 Now brethren you* have no need that anything be written to you* concerning the times and the seasons.
5:2 For* you yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes like a thief in the night.
5:3 For* whenever they are saying, Peace and security; then sudden utter-ruin stands by them, like having travail in the womb, and they may never* escape.
5:4 But brethren, you* are not in darkness, that* the day might overtake you* like a thief.
5:5 You* are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness;
5:6 then* consequently, do not sleep, like the rest also do, but we should watch and should be sober.
5:7 For* those who are sleeping, sleep in the night and those who are drunken are drunken in the night.
5:8 But we should be sober, since we are of the day; clothing yourselves with the breastplate of faith and love*, and the hope of salvation like a helmet.
5:9 Because God has not appointed* us to wrath, but to the acquisition of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
5:10 who died on our behalf, that*, whether we should watch or sleep, we should live at the same time with him.
5:11 Hence encourage one another and build each other up, just-as you* are also doing.

5:12 But we request you*, brethren, to know those who are laboring among you* and are governing over you* and admonishing you* in the Lord;
5:13 and to deem them exceptionally in love* because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.
5:14 But brethren, we encourage you*, admonish the disorderly, console the fainthearted, hold up the weak, be patient toward all.
5:15 See that no one repays evil in exchange-for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good, both toward one another and toward all.
5:16 Rejoice always;
5:17 pray constantly;
5:18 give-thanks in everything; for* this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you*.
5:19 Do not quench the Spirit;
5:20 do not scorn prophesying;
5:21 test all things; hold-onto what is good;
5:22 abstain from every form of evil.

5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you* entirely and may your* whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ.
5:24 Faithful is he who calls you*, who will also do it.

5:25 Brethren, pray concerning us.

5:26 Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.
5:27 I am imploring you* by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brethren.

5:28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you*. Amen.