²⁹ What I mean, brothers and sisters, is that the time is short.^(A) From now on those who have wives should live as if they do not;

³⁰ those who mourn, as if they did not; those who are happy, as if they were not; those who buy something, as if it were not theirs to keep;

³⁴ Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God^(A)—I say this to your shame.^(B)

¹⁴ This is why it is said:

⁵ You are all children of the light^(A) and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness.

⁶ So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep,^(A) but let us be awake^(B) and sober.^(C)