Matthew 24:43 Cross References - WNT

⁴³ But of this be assured, that if the master of the house had known the hour at which the robber was coming, he would have kept awake, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

¹¹ So when they had received it, they grumbled against the employer, saying,

⁴⁴ Therefore you also must be ready; for it is at a time when you do not expect Him that the Son of Man will come.

³⁹ Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

² For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. ³ While they are saying "Peace and safety!" then in a moment destruction falls upon them, like birth-pains on a woman who is with child; and escape there is none. ⁴ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that daylight should surprise you like a thief; ⁵ for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day. We belong neither to the night nor to darkness. ⁶ So then let us not sleep, like the rest of the world, but let us keep awake and be sober.

¹⁰ The day of the Lord will come like a thief--it will be a day on which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, the elements be destroyed in the fierce heat, and the earth and all the works of man be utterly burnt up. ¹¹ Since all these things are thus pre-destined to dissolution, what sort of men ought you to be found to be in all holy living and godly conduct,