then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there, in the land of Egypt, and the famine that you dread shall follow close after you into Egypt, and there you shall die.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you are not in [given up to the power of] darkness, brethren, for that day to overtake you by surprise like a thief. American Standard Version (1901) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief: Common English Bible But you aren’t in darkness, brothers and sisters, so the day won’t catch you by surprise like a thief. Catholic Public Domain Version But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that you would be overtaken by that day as by a thief. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. |
then the sword that you fear shall overtake you there, in the land of Egypt, and the famine that you dread shall follow close after you into Egypt, and there you shall die.
Since the days of Gibeah you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not war overtake them in Gibeah?
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your ancestors? So they repented and said, ‘The Lord of hosts has dealt with us according to our ways and deeds, just as he planned to do.’ ”
Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town.
“Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life and that day does not catch you unexpectedly,
to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
But if the distance is too great, the avenger of blood in hot anger might pursue and overtake and put the killer to death, although a death sentence was not deserved, since the two had not been at enmity before.
“But if you will not obey the Lord your God by diligently observing all his commandments and decrees that I am commanding you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you:
“All these curses shall come upon you, pursuing and overtaking you until you are destroyed, because you did not obey the Lord your God by observing the commandments and the decrees that he commanded you.
He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, and the elements will be destroyed with fire, and the earth and everything that is done on it will be disclosed.
Yet I am writing you a new commandment that is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
(“See, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and is clothed, not going about naked and exposed to shame.”)
Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.