1 Thessalonians 5:1

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

Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.

For this is the message which you heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;

Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.

Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.

For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.

The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are angels.

For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.

When they came near to Jerusalem, and came to Bethsphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples,

This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

It is written in the prophets, ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who hears from the Father and has learned, comes to me.

He said to them, “It isn’t for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,

For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

This is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he commanded.

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

Everyone lies to his neighbor. They speak with flattering lips, and with a double heart.

They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Some of those who are wise will fall, to refine them, and to purify, and to make them white, even to the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won’t prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won’t delay.

and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.

but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared.”

It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.

contributing to the needs of the saints; given to hospitality.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

begging us with much entreaty to receive this grace and the fellowship in the service to the saints.

one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

to Titus, my true child according to a common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior.

Let brotherly love continue.

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

May it be far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous should be like the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn’t the Judge of all the earth do right?”

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.

Let them sing before Yahweh, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world with righteousness, and the peoples with equity.

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

They will no longer each teach his neighbor, and every man teach his brother, saying, ‘Know Yahweh;’ for they will all know me, from their least to their greatest,” says Yahweh: “for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

He said, “Behold, I will make you know what will be in the latter time of the indignation; for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

“At the time of the end the king of the south will contend with him; and the king of the north will come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, with horsemen, and with many ships. He will enter into the countries, and will overflow and pass through.

So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,

Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, “Why weren’t we able to cast it out?”

For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

“Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are all about to be fulfilled?”

They asked him, “Teacher, so when will these things be? What is the sign that these things are about to happen?”

“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.

He made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the surface of the earth, having determined appointed seasons, and the boundaries of their dwellings,

that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints,

Now I beg you, brothers—you know the house of Stephanas, that it is the first fruits of Achaia, and that they have set themselves to serve the saints—

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

For this cause I also suffer these things. Yet I am not ashamed, for I know him whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to guard that which I have committed to him against that day.

Hold the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

From now on, the crown of righteousness is stored up for me, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will give to me on that day; and not to me only, but also to all those who have loved his appearing.

or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. He who doesn’t love his brother remains in death.

“Why aren’t times laid up by the Almighty? Why don’t those who know him see his days?

I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

As for both these kings, their hearts will be to do mischief, and they will speak lies at one table; but it won’t prosper, for the end will still be at the appointed time.

As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”

But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

It is indeed unnecessary for me to write to you concerning the service to the saints,