Luke 12:35
Let your loins be girted, and your lamps burning;
1902 William Baxter Godbey NT
In The King James Version
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
In Context
34For where your treasure is, there your heart will be.
Cross References
Matthew 5:16Let your light so shine before the people, in order that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in the heavens.
Matthew 25:4and the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Ephesians 6:14Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,
1 Peter 1:13Therefore having girded up the loins of your minds, being perfectly sober, hope unto the grace which is conferred on you in the revelation of Jesus 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 →