Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹¹ This also we know – I mean the season, that it is time now to awake out of sleep. For our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ¹² The night has passed, and the day has come near. Let us therefore cast away the deeds of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. ¹³ Let us walk honourably, as in the daylight: not in revelry and drunkenness, nor in sleeping around and wantonness, nor in strife and envying, ¹⁴ but put on the Lord Jesus Christ. And do not make provision for the flesh, to fulfil its lusts.

³⁶ But of that day and hour no man knows – no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. ³⁷ As the time of Noah was, so likewise will the coming of the Son of man be. ³⁸ For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and were married, right up to the day that Noah entered into the ship, ³⁹ and knew of nothing till the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of man be. ⁴⁰ Then two will be in the fields; the one will be received, and the other will be refused. ⁴¹ Two will be grinding at the mill; the one will be received, and the other will be refused.

⁴² Watch therefore, because you do not know what hour your master will come. ⁴³ Of this be sure: if the householder knew what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and not allow his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴ Therefore you also be ready, because in the hour you think he would not, the Son of man will come.