Luke 12:36
Be like men watching for their lord when he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him.
World English Bible
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In Context
35“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 5:5I rose up to open for my beloved. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the lock.
Lamentations 3:25The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.
Matthew 24:42Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
Mark 13:34“It is like a man traveling to another country, having left his house and given authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.
James 5:7Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
Jude 1:20But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
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 →