Luke 12:40

Be you, therefore, ready also; for at an hour when you think not, the Son of man comes.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

In Context

39But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief comes, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

41Then Peter said to him: Lord, dost them speak this parable to us, or also to all?

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42Watch, therefore, for you know not at what hour your Lord is coming.

Matthew 25:13Watch, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become heavy with reveling and drunkenness and the cares of life, and that day come upon you when you look not for it.

Romans 13:14but put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.

2 Peter 3:12looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God, because of which coming the heavens shall dis solve in fire, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

Matthew Henry on Luke 12:23-41

Inordinate Care Reproved. 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 23 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. 24 Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls? 25 And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? 26 If ye then be not able to do that… Read the whole commentary →

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