Matthew 24:44
Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
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- Matt 25:10 : 10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
- Matt 25:13 : 13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
- Rev 19:7 : 7 Let us rejoice and be exceedingly glad, and let us give the glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready."
- Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.
- Luke 12:40 : 40 Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don't expect him."
- Phil 4:5 : 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
- Jas 5:9 : 9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
- Matt 24:27 : 27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
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- Luke 12:35-406 verses91%
35 "Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning.
36 Be like men watching for their lord, when he returns from the marriage feast; that, when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Most assuredly I tell you, that he will dress himself, and make them recline, and will come and serve them.
38 They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
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 24:42-432 verses88%
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.
- Matt 24:45-517 verses85%
45 "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
47 Most assuredly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'
49 and begins to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken,
50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn't expect it, and in an hour when he doesn't know it,
51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
- Matt 25:10-134 verses85%
10 While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
11 Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'
12 But he answered, 'Most assuredly I tell you, I don't know you.'
13 Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
- Mark 13:32-376 verses82%
32 But of that day or that hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
33 Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.
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;
36 lest coming suddenly he might find you sleeping.
37 What I tell you, I tell all: Watch."
- Luke 12:45-473 verses81%
45 But if that servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays his coming,' and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
46 then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn't know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
47 That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
- Matt 24:39-402 verses80%
39 and they didn't know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left;
- Matt 24:36-372 verses79%
36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 "As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matt 24:26-272 verses78%
26 If therefore they tell you, 'Behold, he is in the wilderness,' don't go out; 'Behold, he is in the inner chambers,' don't believe it.
27 For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
- Matt 24:33-342 verses78%
33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Most assuredly I tell you, this generation{The word for "generation" (genea) can also be translated as "race."} will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.
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2 For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
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6 But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!'
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29 even so you also, when you see these things coming to pass, know that it is near, at the doors.
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30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
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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."
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24 for as the lightning, when it flashes out of the one part under the sky, shines to the other part under the sky; so will the Son of Man be in his day.
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43 Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
- Luke 17:30-312 verses73%
30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
31 In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.
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25 When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us!' then he will answer and tell you, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
- Luke 21:35-362 verses73%
35 For it will come like a snare on all those who dwell on the surface of all the earth.
36 Therefore be watchful all the time, asking that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man."
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17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.
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4 But you, brothers, aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief.