⁴³ and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

³⁹ `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

² `If in the breaking through, the thief is found, and he hath been smitten, and hath died, there is no blood for him;

³ if the sun hath risen upon him, blood `is' for him, he doth certainly repay; if he have nothing, then he hath been sold for his theft;

¹⁹ For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

¹¹ and having received `it', they were murmuring against the householder, saying,

⁴⁴ because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.

² for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

³ for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail `doth' her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

⁴ and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

⁵ all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

⁶ so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

¹⁰ and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

¹¹ All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts?