10 Bible Verses about The Lord As A Thief
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For you know quite well that the day of the Lord will come in the same way as a thief in the night.
But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the darkness for the day to overtake you like a thief would.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; when it comes, the heavens will disappear with a horrific noise, and the celestial bodies will melt away in a blaze, and the earth and every deed done on it will be laid bare.
Therefore, remember what you received and heard, and obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come against you.
(Look! I will come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays alert and does not lose his clothes so that he will not have to walk around naked and his shameful condition be seen.)
But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.
But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, "Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet you did not arrest me.
Jesus said to them, "Have you come with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw?
Then Jesus said to the chief priests, the officers of the temple guard, and the elders who had come out to get him, "Have you come out with swords and clubs like you would against an outlaw?
Bible Theasaurus
- Lord (7266 instances)
- Thief (43 instances)