Job 24:14

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¹⁴The murderer rises before it is light,
that he ^(A)may kill the poor and needy,
and in the night he is like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

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²For you yourselves are fully aware that ^(A)the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

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Revelation 3:3

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³^(A)Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, ^(B)I will come ^(C)like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.

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Ephesians 5:7-11

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⁷Therefore ^(A)do not become partners with them; ⁸for ^(B)at one time you were ^(C)darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. ^(D)Walk as children of light ⁹(for ^(E)the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), ¹⁰and ^(F)try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord. ¹¹^(G)Take no part in the ^(H)unfruitful ^(I)works of darkness, but instead ^(J)expose them.

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Luke 12:39

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³⁹^(A)But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour ^(B)the thief was coming, he^[a] would not have left his house to be broken into.

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Footnotes

Luke 12:39 Some manuscripts add would have stayed awake and

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Micah 2:1-2

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Woe to the Oppressors

2 ^(A)Woe to those who devise wickedness
    and work evil ^(B)on their beds!
When the morning dawns, they perform it,
    because it is in the power of their hand.
²They covet fields and ^(C)seize them,
    and houses, and take them away;
they oppress a man and his house,
    a man and his inheritance.

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Psalm 10:8-10

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⁸He sits in ambush in the villages;
    in ^(A)hiding places he murders the innocent.
His eyes stealthily watch for the helpless;
⁹    he lurks in ambush like ^(B)a lion in his ^(C)thicket;
he ^(D)lurks that he may seize the poor;
    he seizes the poor when he draws him into his ^(E)net.
¹⁰The helpless are crushed, sink down,
    and fall by his might.

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2 Samuel 11:14-17

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¹⁴In the morning David ^(A)wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. ¹⁵In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, ^(B)that he may be struck down, and die.” ¹⁶And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men. ¹⁷And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.