Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
Parallel translations
- KJV Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
- BSB Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
- NKJV Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.
- NASB “Therefore be on the alert, for you do not know which day your Lord is coming.
- NLT “So you, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.
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- Luke 21:36Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
- 1 Th 5:6so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober.
- Matt 25:13Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
- Rev 16:15“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”
- 1 Cor 16:13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
- Matt 24:36But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
- Luke 12:35–40“Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
- Matt 24:44Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.
- Rom 13:11Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.
- Matt 26:38–41Then he said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here, and watch with me.”
- Rev 3:2–3Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.
- 1 Pet 5:8Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
- 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
- Mark 13:33–37Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don’t know when the time is.
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