Luke 12:35

"Let your loins be girded about and your lamps burning;

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

36"and be yourselves like men who are looking for the Lord, on his return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they may at once open the door for him.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:16"So let your light shine before men that they may see good you do, and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 25:4"but the wise took oil in their flasks with their lamps.

Ephesians 6:14Stand firm then, girt about with the belt of truth, and wearing the breastplate of righteousness,

1 Peter 1:13So then brace up your minds, be steady in spirit, and fix your hope firmly in the grace that is coming to you, at 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 →

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