Ecclesiastes 9:12
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12 For (A)man also does not know his time:
Like fish taken in a cruel net,
Like birds caught in a snare,
So the sons of men are (B)snared in an evil time,
When it falls suddenly upon them.
Proverbs 29:6
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6 By transgression an evil man is snared,
But the righteous sings and rejoices.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then (A)sudden destruction comes upon them, (B)as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
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Luke 21:34-36
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The Importance of Watching(A)
34 “But (B)take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with [a]carousing, drunkenness, and (C)cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For (D)it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 (E)Watch therefore, and (F)pray always that you may [b]be counted (G)worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and (H)to stand before the Son of Man.”
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- Luke 21:34 dissipation
- Luke 21:36 NU have strength to
Ecclesiastes 8:5-7
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5 He who keeps his command will experience nothing harmful;
And a wise man’s heart [a]discerns both time and judgment,
6 Because (A)for every matter there is a time and judgment,
Though the misery of man [b]increases greatly.
7 (B)For he does not know what will happen;
So who can tell him when it will occur?
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 8:5 Lit. knows
- Ecclesiastes 8:6 is great upon him
2 Peter 2:12
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Depravity of False Teachers
12 But these, (A)like natural brute beasts made to be caught and destroyed, speak evil of the things they do not understand, and will utterly perish in their own corruption,
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1 Peter 2:12
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12 (A)having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, (B)they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify God in the day of visitation.
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2 Timothy 2:26
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26 and that they may come to their senses and (A)escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.
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2 Corinthians 6:2
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2 For He says:
(A)“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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Luke 19:42-44
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42 saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this (A)your day, the things that (B)make for your (C)peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For days will come upon you when your enemies will (D)build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, 44 (E)and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and (F)they will not leave in you one stone upon another, (G)because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
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Luke 17:26-31
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26 (A)And as it (B)was in the (C)days of (D)Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the (E)day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and (F)destroyed them all. 28 (G)Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on (H)the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man (I)is revealed.
31 “In that day, he (J)who is on the housetop, and his [a]goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back.
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- Luke 17:31 possessions
Luke 12:39
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39 (A)But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would [a]have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
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- Luke 12:39 NU not have allowed
Luke 12:20
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20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night (A)your soul will be required of you; (B)then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
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Habakkuk 1:14-17
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14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea,
Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?
15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore (A)they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is [a]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net,
And continue to slay nations without pity?
Footnotes
- Habakkuk 1:16 Lit. fat
Isaiah 30:13
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13 Therefore this iniquity shall be to you
(A)Like a breach ready to fall,
A bulge in a high wall,
Whose breaking (B)comes suddenly, in an instant.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
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11 (A)Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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Proverbs 7:22-23
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22 Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or [a]as a fool to the correction of the [b]stocks,
23 Till an arrow struck his liver.
(A)As a bird hastens to the snare,
He did not know it [c]would cost his life.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 7:22 LXX, Syr., Tg. as a dog to bonds; Vg. as a lamb . . . to bonds
- Proverbs 7:22 shackles
- Proverbs 7:23 Lit. is for
Proverbs 6:15
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Psalm 73:18-20
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18 Surely (A)You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
19 Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream when one awakes,
So, Lord, when You awake,
You shall despise their image.
Psalm 11:6
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6 Upon the wicked He will rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and a burning wind
(A)Shall be [a]the portion of their cup.
Footnotes
- Psalm 11:6 Their allotted portion or serving
Job 18:8-10
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8 For (A)he is cast into a net by his own feet,
And he walks into a snare.
9 The net takes him by the heel,
And (B)a snare lays hold of him.
10 A noose is hidden for him on the ground,
And a trap for him in the road.
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