Matthew 24:42

Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

In Context

41Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken away, and one left behind.

43But of this be assured, that if the master of the house had known the hour at which the robber was coming, he would have kept awake, and not have allowed his house to be broken into.

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Cross References

Matthew 24:36"But as to that day and the exact time no one knows--not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.

Matthew 25:13"Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:33Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen.

Luke 21:36But beware of slumbering; and every moment pray that you may be fully strengthened to escape from all these coming evils, and to take your stand in the presence of the Son of Man."

1 Corinthians 16:13Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.

1 Peter 4:7But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 24:33-51

Parable of the Fig-Tree; Awful Predictions; The Duty of Watchfulness; The Good and Evil Steward. 32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. 34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. 36 But of that day and hour knoweth… Read the whole commentary →

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