Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Be careful! Watch out! Because you don't know when the time will come.
A Conservative Version
Watch ye! Be alert and pray, for ye know not when the time is,
American Standard Version
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
"You should pay attention; be alert and pray, for you do not know when the time will come [i.e., for the Lord to return].
Anderson New Testament
Take heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.
Bible in Basic English
Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be.
Common New Testament
Take heed, watch; for you do not know when the time will come.
Daniel Mace New Testament
be circumspect, be vigilant, and devout: because you are uncertain when that time will be.
Darby Translation
Take heed, watch and pray, for ye do not know when the time is:
Godbey New Testament
Beware, watch; for you know not when the time is.
Goodspeed New Testament
You must look out and be on the alert, for you do not know when it will be time;
John Wesley New Testament
Take heed; watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Julia Smith Translation
See, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
King James 2000
Take you heed, watch and pray: for you know not when the time is.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Watch out! Be alert, because you do not know when the time is!
Modern King James verseion
Take heed, watch and pray, for you do not know when the time is.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Take heed: watch, and pray, for ye know not when the time is:
Moffatt New Testament
Take care, keep awake and pray; you never know the time.
Montgomery New Testament
nor the Son, but only the Father.
NET Bible
Watch out! Stay alert! For you do not know when the time will come.
New Heart English Bible
Watch, keep alert; for you do not know when the time is.
Noyes New Testament
Take heed, watch; for ye know not when the time is.
Sawyer New Testament
Observe, watch, for you know not when the time is.
The Emphasized Bible
Be taking heed, be watching, for ye know not, when, the season is: -
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Take ye heed, watch, and pray; for ye know not when the time is.
Twentieth Century New Testament
See that you are on the watch; for you do not know when the time will be.
Webster
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
Williams New Testament
Keep looking, keep alert, for you do not know when the time will be.
World English Bible
Watch, keep alert, and pray; for you don't know when the time is.
Worrell New Testament
Take heed, watch [and pray]; for ye know not when the time is.
Worsley New Testament
Take heed therefore, watch and pray; for ye know not when the time is:
Youngs Literal Translation
Take heed, watch and pray, for ye have not known when the time is;
Themes
Coming of the lord jesus Christ » What the coming of the lord is likened to
Judgment » The certainty of, a motive to » Prayer and watchfulness
Watchfulness » For the coming of Christ, reasons for » The uncertainty of the time of
Topics
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in Mark 13:33
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Unknown Day And Hour
32 "But as to that day or the exact time no one knows--not even the angels in Heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. 33 Take care, be on the alert, and pray; for you do not know when it will happen. 34 It is like a man living abroad who has left his house, and given the management to his servants--to each one his special duty--and has ordered the porter to keep awake.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 6:18
Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,
Matthew 24:42-44
Be on the alert therefore, for you do not know the day on which your Lord is coming.
Matthew 25:13
"Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.
Matthew 26:40-41
Then He came to the disciples and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Alas, none of you could keep awake with me for even a single hour!
Mark 13:23
But as for yourselves, be on your guard: I have forewarned you of everything.
Mark 13:35-37
Be wakeful therefore, for you know not when the master of the house is coming--in the evening, at midnight, at cock-crow, or at dawn.
Mark 14:37-38
Then He came and found them asleep, and He said to Peter, "Simon, are you asleep? Had you not strength to keep awake a single hour?
Luke 12:40
Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting Him the Son of Man will come."
Luke 21:34-36
"But take heed to yourselves, lest your souls be weighed down with self-indulgence and drunkenness or the anxieties of this life, and that day come upon you, suddenly, like a falling trap;
Romans 13:11-12
Carry out these injunctions because you know the critical period at which we are living, and that it is now high time, to rouse yourselves from sleep; for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first became believers.
Romans 13:14
On the contrary, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for gratifying your earthly cravings.
1 Corinthians 16:13
Be on the alert; stand firm in the faith; acquit yourselves like men; be strong.
1 Thessalonians 5:5-8
for all of you are sons of Light and sons of the day. We belong neither to the night nor to darkness.
Hebrews 12:15
Be carefully on your guard lest there be any one who falls back from the grace of God; lest any root bearing bitter fruit spring up and cause trouble among you, and through it the whole brotherhood be defiled;
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is now close at hand: therefore be sober-minded and temperate, so that you may give yourselves to prayer.
1 Peter 5:8
Curb every passion, and be on the alert. Your great accuser, the Devil, is going about like a roaring lion to see whom he can devour.
Revelation 3:2
Rouse yourself and keep awake, and strengthen those things which remain but have well-nigh perished; for I have found no doings of yours free from imperfection in the sight of My God.
Revelation 16:15
("I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the man who keeps awake and guards his raiment for fear he walk about ill-clad, and his uncomeliness become manifest.")