What Does the Bible Say About As A Thief In The Night?

Matthew 24:42-44 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

Revelation 16:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes

(“Behold, I am coming like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake, keeping his garments on, that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed!”)

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

2 Peter 3:1-18 ESV / 38 helpful votes

This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles, knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” For they deliberately overlook this fact, that the heavens existed long ago, and the earth was formed out of water and through water by the word of God, ...

Revelation 3:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Luke 12:40 ESV / 28 helpful votes

You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”

1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...

Luke 17:26-29 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot—they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all—

Luke 12:39 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.

Mark 13:33 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come.

Luke 17:34-35 ESV / 18 helpful votes

I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.”

Matthew 24:43-44 ESV / 15 helpful votes

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Revelation 4:1-11 ESV / 12 helpful votes

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, ...

Exodus 22:2-3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him, but if the sun has risen on him, there shall be bloodguilt for him. He shall surely pay. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

Job 24:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,

1 Thessalonians 5:4-5 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.

1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief. For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness. ...

Matthew 24:43 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

Matthew 24:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

John 14:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.

Luke 19:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’

Luke 12:43 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

Luke 8:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

He said, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of God, but for others they are in parables, so that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Psalm 24:1-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. ...

Revelation 13:16-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name. This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes

“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

1 Thessalonians 5:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But you are not in darkness, brothers, for that day to surprise you like a thief.

Luke 21:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”

Jeremiah 30:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Alas! That day is so great there is none like it; it is a time of distress for Jacob; yet he shall be saved out of it.

Joel 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.

39 Bible Verses about As A Thief In The Night

Matthew 24:42-44 ESV / 71 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 16:15 ESV / 42 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:2 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Revelation 3:3 ESV / 37 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 30 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:40 ESV / 28 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:1-28 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 17:26-29 ESV / 26 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:39 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 13:33 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 17:34-35 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:43-44 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 4:1-11 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 22:2-3 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:51 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 24:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:3 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:43 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:27 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1-3 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 19:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 12:43 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 8:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 24:1-10 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 13:16-18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Thessalonians 5:4 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 21:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 30:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Joel 2:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 2:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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