Luke 12:35
“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
In Context
34For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Cross References
Isaiah 5:27No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; 2 no one shall slumber nor sleep; 2 neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, 2 nor the strap of their sandals be broken: 1
Matthew 5:16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify 'Avikah shebashamayim ·your Father in Heaven·.
Matthew 25:4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
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 →