Luke 12:39

Good News Translation

And you can be sure that if the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, he would not let the thief break into his house.

Cross References

Matthew 24:42

Watch out, then, because you do not know what day your Lord will come.

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up riches for yourselves here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and robbers break in and steal.

2 Peter 3:10

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. On that Day the heavens will disappear with a shrill noise, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth with everything in it will vanish.

Revelation 16:15

“Listen! I am coming like a thief! Happy is he who stays awake and guards his clothes, so that he will not walk around naked and be ashamed in public!”

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you were taught and what you heard; obey it and turn from your sins. If you do not wake up, I will come upon you like a thief, and you will not even know the time when I will come.