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35 "Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit;
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“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning,
36 be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as 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 finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve 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 If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, 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.
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