Matthew 24:43 Cross References - Goodspeed

⁴³ But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

¹¹ And when they received it they grumbled at their employer,

⁴⁴ Therefore you must be ready too, for the Son of Man is coming at a time when you do not expect him.

³⁹ But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.

² for you yourselves know perfectly well that the Day of the Lord is to come like a thief in the night. ³ When people say, "What peace and security!" then suddenly destruction will be upon them, like birth-pains upon a woman about to give birth to a child, and there will be no escape. ⁴ But you are not in darkness, brothers, so that that Day should surprise you like thieves. ⁵ You all belong to the light and the day. We have nothing to do with night or with darkness. ⁶ So we must not sleep like other men, but we must be vigilant and composed.

¹⁰ The Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on it the heavens will pass away with a roar, the heavenly bodies will burn up and be destroyed, and the earth and all its works will melt away. ¹¹ If all these things are to be dissolved in this way, what holy and pious lives you ought to lead,