Matthew 24:42

Watch therefore, because you have not known in what hour your Lord comes;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

In Context

41two [women] will be grinding in the mill: one is received, and one is left.

43and know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief comes, he had watched, and did not permit his house to be broken through;

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Cross References

Matthew 24:36And concerning that day and the hour no one has known—not even the messengers of the heavens—except My Father only;

Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for you have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man comes.

Mark 13:33Take heed, watch and pray, for you have not known when the time is;

Luke 21:36watch, then, in every season, praying that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”

1 Corinthians 16:13Watch, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

1 Peter 4:7Now the end of all things has come near; be sober-minded, then, and be sober in [your] prayers.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:33-51

Parable of the Fig-Tree; Awful Predictions; The Duty of Watchfulness; The Good and Evil Steward. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth… Read the whole commentary →

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