then the sword you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you are worried about will follow on your heels there to Egypt, and you will die there.
1 Thessalonians 5:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised But you, brothers and sisters, are not in the dark, for this day to surprise you like a thief. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 you fear will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine you are worried about will follow on your heels there to Egypt, and you will die there.
Israel, you have sinned since the days of Gibeah; they have taken their stand there. Will not war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
But didn’t my words and my statutes that I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? ” ’ So the people repented and said, ‘As the Lord of Armies decided to deal with us for our ways and our deeds, so he has dealt with us.’
Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the day of judgement for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.
‘Be on your guard, so that your minds are not dulled from carousing, drunkenness, and worries of life, or that day will come on you unexpectedly
to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”
Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die, since he did not previously hate his neighbour.
‘But if you do not obey the Lord your God by carefully following all his commands and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come and overtake you:
‘All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes he gave you.
He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.
For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; , on that day the heavens will pass away with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed. ,
Yet I am writing you a new command, which is true in him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true light is already shining.
‘Look, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who is alert and remains clothed , so that he may not go around naked and people see his shame.’
Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come upon you.