Luke 12:32-40

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

³²Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom!

³³Sell what you possess and give donations to the poor; provide yourselves with purses and handbags that do not grow old, an unfailing and inexhaustible treasure in the heavens, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

³⁴For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

³⁵Keep your loins girded and your lamps burning,

³⁶And be like men who are waiting for their master to return home from the marriage feast, so that when he returns from the wedding and comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.

³⁷Blessed (happy, fortunate, and ^[a]to be envied) are those servants whom the master finds awake and alert and watching when he comes. Truly I say to you, he will gird himself and have them recline at table and will come and serve them!

³⁸If he comes in the second watch (before midnight) or the third watch (after midnight), and finds them so, blessed (happy, fortunate, and ^[b]to be envied) are those servants!

³⁹But of this be assured: if the householder had known at what time the burglar was coming, he would have been awake and alert and watching and would not have permitted his house to be dug through and broken into.

⁴⁰You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour and a ^[c]moment when you do not anticipate it.

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Footnotes

Luke 12:37 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
Luke 12:38 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
Luke 12:40 James Moulton and George Milligan, The Vocabulary.

Luke 12:32-40

New International Version

³²“Do not be afraid,^(A) little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.^(B) ³³Sell your possessions and give to the poor.^(C) Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven^(D) that will never fail, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.^(E) ³⁴For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.^(F)

Watchfulness^(G)^(H)

³⁵“Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, ³⁶like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. ³⁷It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes.^(I) Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.^(J) ³⁸It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the middle of the night or toward daybreak. ³⁹But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief^(K) was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁰You also must be ready,^(L) because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.”