◄ 1 Thessalonians 5:2 ►
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Good News Translation
For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord will come as a thief comes at night.

New Revised Standard Version
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Contemporary English Version
You surely know that the Lord's return will be as a thief coming at night.

New American Bible
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief at night.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

know.

Jeremiah 23:20 The wrath of the Lord shall not return till he execute it, and till he accomplish the thought of his heart: in the latter days you shall understand his counsel.

the day.

Matthew 24:42-44 Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come. . . .

Matthew 25:13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:34,35 Even as a man who, going into a far country, left his house and gave authority to his servants over every work and commanded the porter to watch. . . .

Luke 12:39,40 But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open. . . .

2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.

Revelation 3:3 Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.

Revelation 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Context
The Day of the Lord
1But of the times and moments, brethren, you need not, that we should write to you: 2For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night. 3For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.…
Cross References
Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

1 Corinthians 1:8
Who also will confirm you unto the end without crime, in the days of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:4
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief.

2 Thessalonians 2:2
That you be not easily moved from your sense nor be terrified, neither by spirit nor by word nor by epistle. as sent from us, as if the day of the Lord were at hand.

2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with great violence and the elements shall be melted with heat and the earth and the works which are in it shall be burnt up.

Revelation 3:3
Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.

Revelation 16:15
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

1 Thessalonians 5:1
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