Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
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Bible References
Are
Romans 13:11
You know the time. It is the hour for you to awake from sleep. Now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers.
Colossians 1:13
He rescued us from the power of darkness, and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of his love (the Son he dearly loves).
1 Peter 2:9
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, and a people for God's own possession, that you may show the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
1 John 2:8
Then again, I do write a new commandment to you. This is true in him and in you. The darkness is passing away, and the true light already shines.
Overtake
Deuteronomy 19:6
Otherwise the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in the heat of his anger. He may overtake him and because the way is long he may take his life. Even though he was not deserving of death, since he had not hated him previously.
Deuteronomy 28:15
If you do not obey Jehovah your God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
Jeremiah 42:16
Then the war that you fear will overtake you, and the hunger you dread will follow you, and you will die there in Egypt.
Hosea 10:9
Jehovah says: The people of Israel have not stopped sinning against me since the time of their sin at Gibeah. So at Gibeah war will catch up with them.
Zechariah 1:6
I commanded my servants the prophets to obey my words and my statutes. They disregarded them and suffered greatly. Then they repented and admitted that I, Jehovah of Hosts, corrected them as they deserved according to their deeds.'
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Luke 12:38
Even if he comes in the second watch or the third and he finds the same his servants are blessed.