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)

Believers Who Have Died

¹³ Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed^(A) about those who sleep in death,^(B) so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.^(C)