Luke 12:35

Make yourselves ready, with your lamps alight;

Twentieth Century New Testament

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 like men who are waiting for their Master’s return from his wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door for him at once.

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Cross References

Matthew 5:16Let your light so shine before the eyes of your fellow men, that, seeing your good actions, they may praise your Father who is in Heaven.

Matthew 25:4while the prudent ones, besides taking their lamps, took oil in their jars.

Ephesians 6:14Stand your ground, then, ‘with truth for your belt,’ and ‘with righteousness for your breast-plate,’

1 Peter 1:13Therefore concentrate your minds, with the strictest self-control, and fix your hopes on the blessing that is coming for you at the Appearing 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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