Luke 21:36

So be ready at all times. Pray that you will be able to endure without being afraid of all these difficult things that will happen, so that you will then stand confidently before me, the one who came from heaven.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

In Context

35You need to know that my return will surprise everyone all over the earth.

37Each day during that week Jesus taught the people in the Temple courtyard in Jerusalem. But at night he and his disciples left the city and stayed on Olive Tree Hill.

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Cross References

Job 27:10◄Will they be happy about what Almighty God does?/They certainly will not be happy about what Almighty God does.► [RHQ] ◄Will they begin to pray to him frequently?/They certainly will not begin to pray to him frequently.► [RHQ] Certainly not!

Malachi 3:2But will anyone [RHQ] be able to survive when he comes? Will anyone [RHQ] be able to remain standing in front of him? Certainly not, because he will be like [SIM] a blazing fire that refines/purifies metal/gold. He will be like [SIM] a very strong soap that bleaches clothes.

Matthew 25:13Then Jesus continued by saying, “So, in order that this will not happen to you, keep expecting that I will return, because you do not know when [MTY] it will be.”

Mark 13:33So be ready, like people who are waiting for an important man to come, because you do not know when that time will come when all these events will happen!

Luke 12:37If those servants are awake when he returns, he will be very pleased with them. I will tell you this: He will put on the kind of clothes that servants wear and tell them to sit down, and he will serve them a meal.

Luke 20:35But the men whom God considers worthy of being in heaven after they become alive again will not be married.

Matthew Henry on Luke 21:30-38

Judgments Predicted. 29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts… Read the whole commentary →

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