1 Thessalonians 5:2

The day of the Lord will come unexpectedly, like a thief in the night. No one can predict its arrival.

Cross-references · 9

• Rev 16:15“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.”
• 2 Pet 3:10But 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 3:3Remember 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 24:42–44Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
• Luke 12:39–40But 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.
• Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
• Mark 13:34–35“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.
• Jer 23:20Yahweh’s anger shall not return, until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.
• 1 Cor 1:8who will also confirm you until the end, blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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