Luke 12:40

Therefore you be ready also: for the Son of man will come at a hour when you do not expect.

Revised King James New Testament

In The King James Version

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

In Context

39And know this, that if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

41Then Peter said to him, Lord, are you speaking this parable to us, or to everyone?

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Cross References

Matthew 24:42Therefore watch: for you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

Matthew 25:13Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Luke 21:34And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be weighed down with dissipation, and drunkenness, and the cares of this life, so that day comes upon you unexpectedly like a snare.

Romans 13:14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its lusts.

2 Peter 3:12Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, in which the heavens shall be dissolved in fire, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

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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