1 Thessalonians 5:4
But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
In Context
5You are all sons of light, and sons of day: we are not of night, nor of darkness.
Cross References
Acts 26:18in order to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.
Colossians 1:13who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and has translated us into the kingdom of his beloved Son,
2 Peter 3:10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief, in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth, and the works that are on it, shall be burned up.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 5:2-6
The Coming of Christ. ( a. d. 51.) 1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. 4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we… Read the whole commentary →