Luke 12:35

The return of Christ Serving others Waiting on God

³³ Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

³⁴ For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.

³⁶ Then you will be like servants waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.

³⁷ Blessed are those servants whom the master finds on watch when he returns. Truly I tell you, he will dress himself to serve and will have them recline at the table, and he himself will come and wait on them.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
KJV: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
WEB: “Let your waist be dressed and your lamps burning.
ASV: Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;
DARBY: Let your loins be girded about, and lamps burning;
BLB: Let your⁺ loins be girded around and the lamps burning,

ÅB: La deres lender være ombundet og deres lys brennende,
OTB: “Vær klare til tjeneste og hold lampene deres brennende,
B1930: La eders lender være ombundet og eders lys brennende,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

1 Peter 1:13
Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Ephesians 6:14
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
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Matthew 25:4–10
But the wise ones took oil in flasks along with their lamps.
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Matthew 25:1
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
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Matthew 5:16
In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
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Isaiah 5:27
None of them grows weary or stumbles; no one slumbers or sleeps. No belt is loose and no sandal strap is broken.
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Isaiah 11:5
Righteousness will be the belt around His hips, and faithfulness the sash around His waist.
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Philippians 2:15
so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
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