Luke 12:37

Blessed those servants who, when their lord shall come, shall be found watching. Amen I tell you, He will gird his loins, and make them recline, and will come over and serve them.

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

In The King James Version

Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

In Context

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.

38And if in the second or the third watch he shall come and find them thus, blessed will be those servants.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:45WHO is the servant faithful and wise whom his lord shall appoint over the children of his house, to give every one his meat in his time?

Luke 12:43Blessed that servant whom, when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.

Luke 21:36Be therefore wakeful at all time, and pray that you may be worthy to escape from those things that are about to be, and that you may stand before the Son of man.

John 13:4riseth from supper, and setteth his garments apart, and took a towel, (and) bound (it) upon his loins;

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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