“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
Parallel translations
- KJV Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
- BSB Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
- NKJV “Let your waist be girded and your lamps burning;
- NASB “Be prepared, and keep your lamps lit.
- NLT “Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning,
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Cross-references · 10
- 1 Pet 1:13Therefore prepare your minds for action, be sober, and set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ —
- Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
- Matt 25:4–10but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
- Matt 5:16Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
- Isa 5:27No one shall be weary nor stumble among them; no one shall slumber nor sleep; neither shall the belt of their waist be untied, nor the strap of their sandals be broken:
- Matt 25:1“Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.
- Isa 11:5Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.
- Phil 2:15that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without defect in the middle of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you are seen as lights in the world,
- Prov 31:17She arms her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.
- 1 Kgs 18:46Yahweh’s hand was on Elijah; and he tucked his cloak into his belt and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
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