Luke 12:40

Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

41And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42Watch ye therefore, because ye know not what hour your Lord will come.

Matthew 25:13Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly.

Romans 13:14But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh in its concupiscences.

2 Peter 3:12Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning 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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