1 Thessalonians 5:4 Cross References - MNT

⁴ But you, brothers, are not in darkness, that "the Day" should come upon you like a bandit.

¹⁸ "'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

¹¹ Carry out these injunctions because you know the crisis that we are in, that now it is high time for you to awake out of sleep; for now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed. ¹² The night is far spent; The day is at hand. Let is therefore take off the deeds of darkness, Let us put on the armor of light. ¹³ Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

¹³ For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

⁹ But you are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a purchased people, that you may show forth the virtues of Him who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light— ¹⁰ you who once were not a people, but now are the people of God; who were once without mercy, but now you have found mercy.

¹⁰ But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that Day the heavens will vanish with a crash, the heavenly bodies will melt with fervent heat, and the earth and all its works will be burned up.

⁸ Yet again it is a new commandment which I am writing to you, which is true in him and is you; because the darkness is passing away, and the true light is already shining.

³ Call to mind, then, what you have received and heard, and hold to it, and repent. Unless you are on the watch, I will come as a thief, and you will never know at what hour I am coming upon you.