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; ³¹ those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.^(B)

¹¹ These things happened to them as examples^(A) and were written down as warnings for us,^(B) on whom the culmination of the ages has come.^(C)

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)