Luke 12:35

Let your loins be bound, and your lamps be burning,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

In Context

34For where your treasure is, there will be also your heart.

36and be you like men who wait for their lord, when he shall return from the place of festivity, that, when he hath come and knocked, immediately they may open to him.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:16So let your light shine before the sons of men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 25:4but those were wise who took oil in vessels with their lamps.

Ephesians 6:14Stand, therefore, with your loins strengthened with the truth, and wear the breastplate of righteousness,

1 Peter 1:13Wherefore gird up the loins of your minds, and be fully wakeful, and hope for the joy that cometh to you at the revelation of our Lord Jeshu Meshiha;

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 →

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