Luke 12:39

New American Bible - revised edition

Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

Cross References

2 Peter 3:10

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out. Exhortation to Preparedness.

Revelation 3:3

Remember then how you accepted and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not watchful, I will come like a thief, and you will never know at what hour I will come upon you.

Revelation 16:15

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief.” Blessed is the one who watches and keeps his clothes ready, so that he may not go naked and people see him exposed.)

Matthew 6:19

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and decay destroy, and thieves break in and steal.

Matthew 24:42

Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.