Luke 12:35
Tighten your gartels for action and have your menorahs lit.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
In Context
34For where your otzar (treasure) is, there also will be your lev (heart).
Cross References
1 Kings 18:46And the Yad Hashem was on Eliyahu; and he girded up his loins, and ran ahead of Ach'av to the entrance of Yizre'el.
Isaiah 5:27None shall be weary nor stumble among them; 1 none shall slumber nor sleep; 1 neither shall the ezor of their loins be loosed, 1 nor the thong of their sandals be broken; 1
Matthew 5:16In like manner, let your light so shine before Bnei Adam, that they may see your ma'asim tovim (good works) and give kavod (glory) to your Av sh'ba'Shomayim (Father in Heaven).
Matthew 25:4But the wise took shemen in containers with their menorahs.
Ephesians 6:14Stand, therefore, having girded your waist with HaEmes and having put on the breastplate of Tzedek, + 6:14 Isa 11:5; Ps 132:9; Isa 59:17
1 Peter 1:13Therefore, tighten the “readiness” gartel of your mind, a mind that is one of kibush hayetzer (self-control). Set your tikvah completely on the Chen v'Chesed Hashem that is being brought to you, at the Hisgalus (Revelation, Apocalypse) of Moshiach Yehoshua.
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 →