1 Thess. 4:10 to 18.--"And indeed ye do it," viz. love one another, ver. 9, "toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;--And that ye study to be _quiet_, and to do _your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you_;--That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.--But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are _asleep_, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.--For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so _them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him_.--For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that _we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep_.--For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and _the dead in Christ shall rise first.--Then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds_, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.--Wherefore comfort one another with these words." Hereupon, without any intervening matter, follows that of the next chapter. The division into chapters,--though, for the purpose of reference, not merely a useful, but an altogether necessary one,--is universally acknowledged to have been a comparatively modern one. 1 Thess. 5:1-11. "But _of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you_.--For yourselves know perfectly, that _the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night_.--For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then _sudden destruction cometh upon them_, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.--_But ye, brethren, are not in darkness_, that that day should overtake you as a thief.--Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.--Therefore _let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober_.--For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken, are drunken in the night.--But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of _faith_ and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.--For _God hath not appointed us to wrath_, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.--Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.--Wherefore _comfort yourselves_ together, and edify one another, even as also ye do."