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35 "Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit.
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“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,
36 "Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.
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like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.
37 "Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them.
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It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.
38 "Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
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It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak.
39 "But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
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But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
40 "You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."
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You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”
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