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D&C 106:5 · 1 Thessalonians 5:4

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 106:5
"Therefore, gird up your loins, that you may be the children of light, and that day shall not overtake you as a thief."
New Testament 1 Thessalonians 5:4
"But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief."

Shared words: overtake you as a thief

Divergences: the epistle grounds the exemption in a state the hearers are already in ('are not in darkness'); the revelation grounds it in an action commanded ('gird up your loins'), making the exemption conditional where the epistle states it as fact. 'the children of light' is in the revelation's own verse but in the epistle's next verse, 1 Thessalonians 5:5, 'Ye are all the children of light' - which is why only the overtaking clause is paired here and 5:5 is disclosed. 'children of light' stands at five distinct frozen verses in the corpus: 1 Thessalonians 5:5, D&C 106:5, Ephesians 5:8, John 12:36, Luke 16:8.