Luke 12:35
“Let your waists be belted and your lamps burning,
Family 35 New Testament
In The King James Version
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
In Context
34Because where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Cross References
Matthew 5:16So also let your light shine before the people, so that they may see your good works and may glorify your Father, who is in the heavens.
Matthew 25:4but the prudent ones took oil in their vessels along with their lamps.
Ephesians 6:14So stand firm, having belted your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
1 Peter 1:13Therefore, having girded up the loins of your mind, staying sober, rest your hope fully upon the grace being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ —
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 →