Luke 12:35
"Have your girdles on, and let your lamps be alight;
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
In Context
34For where your wealth is stored, there also will your heart be.
Cross References
Matthew 5:16Just so let your light shine before all men, in order that they may see your holy lives and may give glory to your Father who is in Heaven.
Matthew 25:4but the wise, besides their torches, took oil in their flasks.
Ephesians 6:14Stand therefore, first fastening round you the girdle of truth and putting on the breastplate of uprightness
1 Peter 1:13Therefore gird up your minds and fix your hopes calmly and unfalteringly upon the boon that is soon to be yours, at the re-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 →