Luke 12:40
Good News Translation
And you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him."

New Revised Standard Version
You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour.”

Contemporary English Version
So always be ready! You don't know when the Son of Man will come.

New American Bible
You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come.

Luke 21:34-36 And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly. . . .

Matthew 24:42,44 Watch ye therefore, because you know not what hour your Lord will come. . . .

Matthew 25:13 Watch ye therefore, because you know not the day nor the hour.

Mark 13:33-36 Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is. . . .

Romans 13:11,14 And that, knowing the season, that it is now the hour for us to rise from sleep. For now our salvation is nearer than when we believed. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:6 Therefore, let us not sleep, as others do: but let us watch, and be sober.

2 Peter 3:12-14 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of the Lord, by which the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with the burning heat? . . .

Revelation 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice and give glory to him. For the marriage of the Lamb is come: and his wife hath prepared herself.

Context
Be Ready for Service
39But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch and would not suffer his house to be broken open. 40Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not the Son of man will come. 41And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?…
Cross References
Mark 13:33
Take ye heed, watch and pray. For ye know not when the time is.

Luke 21:34
And take heed to yourselves, lest perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life: and that day come upon you suddenly.

Luke 21:36
Watch ye, therefore, praying at all times, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are to come and to stand before the Son of man.

Luke 12:39
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