16 Bible Verses about The Time Unknown

"But no one knows when that day or hour will come. Not even the angels in heaven or the Son [of God] know [when it will happen], but only the Father [does].

But no one knows when that day or that hour will come; not even the angels in heaven or the Son of God know, but only the Father does.

Therefore be alert, for you do not know on what day the Lord will come.

"You should pay attention; be alert and pray, for you do not know when the time will come [i.e., for the Lord to return].

Therefore, you should be watchful, for you do not know the day or hour [i.e., when the Son of man will return].

Therefore, you also should be ready, for the Son of man will come at a time when you least expect Him.

So, you also should be ready, for the Son of man will return at a time when you least expect Him."

So, remember how you have received and heard the message [i.e., they had eagerly accepted the Gospel]; [now] obey it and repent. For if you do not become [spiritually] alert, I will come as a thief [i.e. unexpectedly] and you will not know the [exact] time that I will come upon you [in judgment. See 2:16, 25].

that slave's master will return on a day that he least expects, and at an unknown hour.

So, be alert, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return, whether [some] evening, at midnight, at dawn, or at [mid-] morning.

that slave's master will return on a day that he least expects, and at an hour unknown [to him]. And [that master] will whip him to shreds and will turn him over to suffer the same fate as unfaithful servants receive.

for you know perfectly well that the day of the Lord [i.e., when He returns, See II Thess. 2:1-2] will arrive like a thief coming in the night.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief [i.e., unexpectedly]. At that time the heavens will pass away with a loud noise and the elements [Note: This refers either to the heavenly bodies or to the material components of the universe], will be dissolved with intense heat. And the earth and its works [i.e., its activities] will be burned up. [Note: Some translations render this phrase as it is in some ancient manuscripts, "will be disclosed," or "will be laid bare"].

But you brothers are not in the dark about that day, so that it sneaks up on you like a thief,

But you should know this: if the owner of a house had known when a thief was coming, he would have been watching so as not to allow his house to be broken into.

we request that you people do not become shaken up in your mind, nor alarmed, either by a spirit [i.e., by some prophetic prediction], or by a report, or by a letter supposedly from us, that the day of the Lord [i.e., when Jesus returns] has already come.