Luke 12:35

Let your loins be girded, and your lamps burning.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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

36And be ye like persons who are waiting for their lord, when he shall return from the house of feasting, that, when he shall come and knock, they may open to him immediately.

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Cross References

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

Matthew 25:4But the wise took oil in vessels, with their lamps.

Ephesians 6:14Stand up therefore, and gird your loins with truth; and put on the breastplate of righteousness;

1 Peter 1:13Wherefore, gird up the loins of your minds. and be awake perfectly, and wait for the joy, which will come to you at the revelation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah,

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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