1 Thessalonians 5:2

World English Bible (2000)

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

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  • 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
  • Rev 16:15 : 15 "Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn't walk naked, and they see his shame."
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
  • Matt 24:42-44 : 42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes. 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. 44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
  • Luke 12:39-40 : 39 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into. 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
  • Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
  • Mark 13:34-35 : 34 "It is like a man, traveling to another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch. 35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;
  • Jer 23:20 : 20 The anger of Yahweh shall not return, until he has executed, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand it perfectly.

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    3 For when they are saying, "Peace and safety," then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman; and they will in no way escape.

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  • 2 Pet 3:10-11
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  • Matt 24:42-44
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    42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

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    44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.

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

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    35 Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of the house is coming, whether at evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning;

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    1 Now, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him, we ask you

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  • Luke 21:34-35
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    16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

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