Luke 12:35
Let your loynes be gird about and your lights burning,
Geneva Bible 1599
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 hearts be also.
Cross References
1 Kings 18:46And the hand of the Lord was on Eliiah, and he girded vp his Ioynes, and ran before Ahab till he came to Izreel.
Isaiah 5:27None shall faint nor fall among them: none shall slumber nor sleepe, neither shall the girdle of his loynes be loosed, nor the latchet of his shooes be broken:
Matthew 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your Father which is in heauen.
Matthew 25:4But the wise tooke oyle in their vessels with their lampes.
Ephesians 6:14Stand therefore, and your loynes girded about with veritie, and hauing on the brest plate of righteousnesse,
1 Peter 1:13Wherefore, girde vp the Ioynes of your minde: bee sober, and trust perfectly on that grace that is brought vnto you, in the reuelation of Iesus Christ,
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 →