Luke 21:36

Be ye therefore vigilant, at all times, and prayerful; that ye may be worthy to escape the things that are to take place, and may stand before the Son of man.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

In Context

35For, like a hunter's snare, it will spring upon all them that dwell upon the face of the whole land.

37And, in the daytime he taught in the temple, and at night he went out and lodged in the mount, called the Place of Olives.

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Cross References

Matthew 25:13Watch, therefore, seeing ye know not the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:33Take heed, watch, and pray; for ye know not when the time is.

Luke 12:37Happy are those servants, whom their lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Verily I say to you: He will gird his loins, and make them recline, and will pass around and serve them.

Luke 20:35But they who are worthy of that world, and of the resurrection from the dead, do not take wives, nor are wives given to husbands.

Matthew Henry on Luke 21:30-38

Judgments Predicted. 29 And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled. 33 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. 34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts… Read the whole commentary →

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