8. But since we are of the day, let us be sober-minded—putting on the breastplate of faithfulness and love, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.
9. For God did not destine us for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Messiah.
10. He died for us so that, whether we may be awake or asleep, we may live together with Him.
11. Therefore encourage one another and build each other up—just as you in fact are doing.