What scripture is like a thief in the night?

Answer 1

1 Thes. 5:2 and Rev. 3:3 both but usually refers to 1 Thes. 5:2 here is the whole context.

(1Th 4:16 KJV) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

(1Th 4:17 KJV) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

(1Th 4:18 KJV) Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

(1Th 5:1 KJV) But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

(1Th 5:2 KJV) For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

(1Th 5:3 KJV) 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.

(1Th 5:4 KJV) But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

(1Th 5:5 KJV) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

(1Th 5:6 KJV) Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

(1Th 5:7 KJV) For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

(1Th 5:8 KJV) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

(1Th 5:9 KJV) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,