1 Thessalonians 5:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord will come [as unexpectedly and suddenly] as a thief in the night.

American Standard Version (1901)

² For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

Common English Bible

² You know very well that the day of the Lord is going to come like a thief in the night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² For you yourselves thoroughly understand that the day of the Lord shall arrive much like a thief in the night.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord shall so come, as a thief in the night.

1 Thessalonians 5:2 Cross References

Jeremiah 23:20

The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it perfectly.

Matthew 25:13

Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

Luke 21:34

But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

1 Corinthians 1:8

who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye be unreproveable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:4

But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief:

2 Thessalonians 2:2

to the end that ye be not quickly shaken from your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by epistle as from us, as that the day of the Lord is now present;

Joshua 11:7

So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

Revelation 16:15

(Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.)

Revelation 3:3

Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.