Luke 12:35-38

You Must Be Ready

35 ¹“Stay dressed for action^[a] and ²keep your lamps burning,

36 and be like men who are ³waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and ⁴knocks.

37 ⁵Blessed are those servants^[b] whom the master finds ⁶awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, ⁷he will dress himself for service and ⁸have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.

38 If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!

Cross References

• 1. 12:35 Eph. 6:14; 1 Pet. 1:13
• 2. 12:35 [Matt. 25:7]
• 3. 12:36 See 2 Pet. 3:12
• 4. 12:36 Rev. 3:20
• 5. 12:37 See Matt. 24:42, 46
• 6. 12:37 See Matt. 24:42, 46
• 7. 12:37 John 13:4; [ver. 35; ch. 17:8]
• 8. 12:37 [ch. 22:27]

Footnotes

• [a] 12:35 Greek 'Let your loins stay girded'; compare Exodus 12:11
• [b] 12:37 Greek 'bondservants'