Luke 12:32-40

English Standard Version

^32 (A)“Fear not, little ^(B)flock, for ^(C)it is your Father's good pleasure to give you ^(D)the kingdom. ^33 (E)Sell your possessions, and ^(F)give to the needy. ^(G)Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with ^(H)a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. ^34 (I)For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

You Must Be Ready

^35 (J)“Stay dressed for action^[a] and ^(K)keep your lamps burning, ³⁶ and be like men who are ^(L)waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and ^(M)knocks. ^37 (N)Blessed are those servants^[b] whom the master finds ^(O)awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, ^(P)he will dress himself for service and ^(Q)have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. ³⁸ If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! ^39 (R)But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour ^(S)the thief was coming, he^[c] would not have left his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰ You also must be ^(T)ready, for ^(U)the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”