{"id":425,"date":"2026-04-21T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T05:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:04:15","slug":"1-thessalonians-4-18-5-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"1 Thessalonians 4: 18-5: 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>4:18 Therefore <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">encourage<\/mark> one another with these words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">5:1 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, \u201cThere is peace and security,\u201d then sudden <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">destruction<\/mark> will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">4 But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">day<\/mark> to surprise you like a thief. 5 For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:6em\">6 So then let us not <mark style=\"background-color:#b9fbc0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">sleep<\/mark>, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:6em\">7 For those who <mark style=\"background-color:#b9fbc0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">sleep<\/mark>, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, are drunk at night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:4em\">8 But since we belong to the <mark style=\"background-color:#90dbf4\" class=\"has-inline-color\">day<\/mark>, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-left:2em\">9 For God has not destined us for <mark style=\"background-color:#cfbaf0\" class=\"has-inline-color\">wrath<\/mark>, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep we might live with him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>11 Therefore <mark style=\"background-color:#ffcfd2\" class=\"has-inline-color\">encourage<\/mark> one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4:18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. 5:1 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. 2 For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, \u201cThere is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-thessalonians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patternsinthebible.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}