Luke 12:36
And you yourselves like to men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open to him immediately.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
35Let your loins be girt, and lamps burning in your hands.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:5I arose up to open to my beloved: my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.
Lamentations 3:25Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to the soul that seeketh him.
Matthew 24:42Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come.
Mark 13:34Even as a man who going into a far country, left his house; and gave authority to his servants over every work, and commanded the porter to watch.
James 5:7Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.
Jude 1:20But you, my beloved, building yourselves upon you most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
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 →