1 Thessalonians 5:4

American Standard Version (1901)

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

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  • 1 John 2:8 : 8 Again, a new commandment write I unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light already shineth.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep [it], and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
  • Deut 19:6 : 6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
  • Deut 28:15 : 15 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.
  • Deut 28:45 : 45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
  • Jer 42:16 : 16 then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye fear, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, whereof ye are afraid, shall follow hard after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood; the battle against the children of iniquity doth not overtake them in Gibeah.
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
  • Rom 13:11-13 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed. 12 The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love;
  • 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: 10 who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

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    6so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober.

    7For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.

    8But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.

    9For God appointed us not into wrath, but unto the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Thess 5:1-3
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    1But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that aught be written unto you.

    2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

    3When they are saying, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall in no wise escape.

  • Eph 5:6-8
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    6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

    7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

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  • 1 Thess 4:12-13
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    12that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

    13But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

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    35Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

    36lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Rom 13:11-12
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    11And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.

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    15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

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    1Now we beseech you, brethren, touching the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together unto him;

    2to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is just at hand;

    3let no man beguile you in any wise: for [it will not be], except the falling away come first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

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    14Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

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    35Look therefore whether the light that is in thee be not darkness.

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    39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to be broken through. [

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    42Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

    43But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

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    33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

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    11and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

    6that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

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    14Ye are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.

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    19And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts:

  • 2 Pet 3:10
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    10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

  • 1 John 1:5
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    5And this is the message which we have heard from him and announce unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    20Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.

  • John 1:5
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    5And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness apprehended it not.

  • Matt 25:13
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    13Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

  • 1 Thess 4:18
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    18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

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    14Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for these things, give diligence that ye may be found in peace, without spot and blameless in his sight.