10 Bible Verses about The Lord As A Thief
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for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,
and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;
and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.
'Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.
lo, I do come as a thief; happy is he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --
and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;
'And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;
In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, 'As against a robber ye did come forth, with swords and sticks, to take me! daily with you I was sitting teaching in the temple, and ye did not lay hold on me;
And Jesus answering said to them, 'As against a robber ye came out, with swords and sticks, to take me!
And Jesus said to those having come upon him -- chief priests, and magistrates of the temple, and elders -- 'As upon a robber have ye come forth, with swords and sticks?
Bible Theasaurus
- Lord (7266 instances)
- Thief (43 instances)