1 Thessalonians 5:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

But you, brothers, 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 I write to you, which thing is true in him and in you, because the darkness is past, and the true light now shines.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.
  • 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 kill him; though he was not worthy of death, since he did not hate him in time past.
  • Deut 28:15 : 15 But it shall come to pass, if you will not listen unto the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day; that all these curses shall come upon you, and overtake you:
  • Deut 28:45 : 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon you, and shall pursue you, and overtake you, until you are destroyed; because you did not listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you:
  • Jer 42:16 : 16 Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which you feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, of which you were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there you shall die.
  • Hos 10:9 : 9 O Israel, you have sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.
  • Zech 1:6 : 6 But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said: Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has dealt with us.
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith that is in me.
  • Rom 13:11-13 : 11 And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. 12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
  • Col 1:13 : 13 Who has delivered us from the power of darkness, and has transferred us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
  • 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 Who once were not a 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 night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are in it shall be burned up.

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    5You are all children of light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

    6Therefore let us not sleep, as others do; but let us watch and be sober.

    7For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

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

    9For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

  • 1 Thess 5:1-3
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    1But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that I write to you.

    2For you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes as a thief in the night.

    3For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

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

    7Therefore do not be partakers with them.

    8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord: walk as children of light:

  • 1 Thess 4:12-13
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    12That you may walk honestly toward those who are outside, and that you may have lack of nothing.

    13But I would not have you be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others who have no hope.

  • Mark 13:35-36
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    35Watch therefore: for you do not know when the master of the house comes, in the evening, or at midnight, or at the rooster crowing, or in the morning:

    36Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

  • Rom 13:11-12
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    11And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

    12The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

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    15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

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    1Now we beseech you, brothers, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him,

    2That you be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as if the day of Christ is at hand.

    3Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come unless there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

  • Eph 5:14-17
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    14Therefore he says, Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

    15See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,

    16Making the most of the time, because the days are evil.

    17Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • Luke 11:35
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    35Take heed therefore that the light which is in you is not darkness.

  • Luke 12:39-40
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    39And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

    40Therefore be ready also: for the Son of Man comes at an hour you do not expect.

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    42Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.

    43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

    44Therefore you also be ready, for in an hour you do not expect the Son of Man will come.

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    16In the dark they break into houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.

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

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    14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as if it were night.

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    20Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness, and not light? even very dark, with no brightness in it?

  • Eph 5:11
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    11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them.

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    35Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you; for he who walks in darkness does not know where he is going.

  • Rev 16:15
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    15Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he who watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame.

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    6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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    14You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

  • 2 Pet 1:19
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    19We have also a more sure word of prophecy, to which you do well to take heed, as to a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts:

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

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    5This then is the message which we have heard from him, and declare to you, that God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4Wherein they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

  • 1 Cor 14:20
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    20Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be infants, but in understanding be mature.

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    5And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

  • Matt 25:13
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    13Watch therefore, for you do not know the day nor the hour when the Son of Man comes.

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

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    14Therefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that you may be found by him in peace, without spot, and blameless.